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...incompatible, just as individualism in politics is incompatible with democracy. If one is free at Harvard to develop as he pleases; if one does not feel the restraint or the stimulus of a college spirit brought directly to bear on the individual, he is likewise free to play the fool. He is also free to be unutterably lonely. Without knowing it he may suffer a partial atrophy of his best self. If he finds congenial associates, they are most likely to be men like himself, and his circle of friendship is rarely large. Most students do not begin to have...
...Charlton Andrews, of Valley City, North Dakota, who was the first MacDowell Fellow three years ago, is to have one of his plays, "His Majesty the Fool," produced at the Little Theatre in Philadelphia this autumn or early in the winter. It is to follow "Tomorrow" by Percy MacKaye '97 which will probably begin in about three weeks...
...this leads us to another matter. For the past few years the members of the Hall have considered the dinner hour on April Fool's Day as a perfectly legitimate time for the suspension of all sense of good breeding and conventional table-manners. We sincerely hope that this sort of "fun" will be omitted this evening. If an appeal to the members' sense of decency and regard for gentle-manly conduct (as opposed to the manners of a fourth rate boarding house) can have any effect, let us be free from a custom at once hopelessly childish and also...
...left stood a study chair and a desk of some period difficult to conjecture; in the chair sat the "Wise Man" philosophizing aloud, and near him, on a pedestal, an hour glass. The "Wise Man" was a teacher and he philosophized in language that betokened him an atheist. A "Fool" enters. He admits he is a fool but he tells not his beliefs about some things lest they be stolen from him. The "Fool" leaves and the philosopher continues his speculations. He is about to call his students when he sees standing in the aperture to his study an angel...
...plot is very complicated, the action centering around Valerio, a young fellow who "longs to swagger." He gets himself into many awkward situations, is secretly married, has a fight with bailiffs, is arrested, and makes a fool of himself because he is unable to curb his inordinate vanity. At the instigation of the villian Rynaldo, Fortunio and Valerio attempt to defraud their fathers. The denouement is most amusing and unexpected...