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...inaugurating such a course, M. I. T. seems to forget that in its sports it has the best possible instructor in team work. For years the worth of sports has long been argued to lie in the team spirit so valuable in later years which they give the youth for a heritage. Certainly an hour of rowing on the basin in rough weather will teach far more than the drone of a lecturer's voice over an equal stretch of time. It seems unfortunate that an adidtional burden should be added to a curriculum already as crowded as that...
Commander Mabie cried: "Why parade the grandson of an arch traitor up the street dressed in the uniform of his grandfather with the insignia of the dishonored Confederate States on the sword and sash? . . . We try to forget the Civil War, but they still remember it in the South...
...Henry Riggs Rathbone, a statesman of the wet-lipped, silver-tongued variety, with a grandiloquent voice. Mr. Rathbone's parents were in President Lincoln's box at Ford's Theatre the night of the assassination. Mr. Rathbone has never permitted himself, or any one else, to forget this coincidence...
...Pasadena, Calif. Briefly, the play sets forth the adventures of Lazarus who was raised from the dead, taken to Rome, and there, after he has failed to provide Emperor Tiberius with renewed youth, burned at the stake. Lazarus is convinced that death is a misconception; men, he suggests, should forget sorrow and they should laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. The actors in the play give a large part of their time to an illustration of this precept; at one point, in the Pasadena performance, laughter, concerted and solo, continues on the stage for four successive minutes...
DEBONAIR-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Twittering, dove-colored, Mrs. Trevelyan welcomes her daughter, Loveday, back to their little haven on the Italian Riviera, and would so gladly "forgive and forget" if only she would confide...