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Wherever mortals and human institutions are found, do not expect perfection. The chronic fault-finder seldom considers this. Hence he is loud in his bellowing for reform...
...year over 40,000 people failed to vote in the Boston election and the year before only 30 percent voted for members of the municipal council. Everyone can perform this service and no man or woman who has the right to vote and fails to vote through his own fault, can regard himself as other than a traitor to democracy...
...specially printed cards to men who had never been Freshmen. It was further intended to include on the blanks a third question as to the school or college a man came from, but this was omitted by an error. The reason for the questions which our communicant finds fault is, according to the Bursar's Office, purely statistical...
...finger on the weaknesses of present day drams. Professor Baker yesterday also raised an interesting point in connection with the purpose of drama itself. He pointed out that the great dramatic of America today is a good theatre, giving good plays to an audience of eclectic taste. That fault of the day in American dram is the lack of standards a play being considered for its business qualifications rather than its art. The solution Professor Baker feels lies with more and more producers with a purpose beyond more money making; producers of the type of Winthrop Ames. Arthur Hopkins...
...places the farce is carried a little too far, and the unreality of it makes it less effective than if it had been more moderately treated; added to this the author has written dialogue that sounds at times like vaudeville repartee, giving a note of artificiality. But this fault is not very serious, and is felt only here and there...