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...Courtship of Miles Standish. The casual and the captious witness will be decidedly at odds over this portion of Puritan romance. The former, vaguely recalling the sugar coated capsule fed him by a forgotten history teacher, will go in and out delightedly. The latter, unwilling to be betrayed into a display of unpremeditated emotion, will seek feverishly for flaws. Of these there seems to be an abundance. The scenes were rather obviously made in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a Hollywood studio. Priscilla is played by Enid Bennett in her best molasses manner. Even the captious, however, must assent...
Literary criticism. Dr. Albert Feuillerat, professor in the University of Rennes, France, used his address The Future of Literary Criticism, as a chance to denounce "the analytical critic." "He has become so obsessed in dissecting literary works that he has practically forgotten that literary works are written that they may be enjoyed by all those who read them, critics included." Professors will have to cease being what the late Sir Walter Raleigh called them in England, "trained bores," and become humane as well as erudite...
There is a difference, however. The East Indian, once dead, could be forgotten. The Leavenworth convict is not killed but remains to be a very acute problem. If he is kept in prison, he can pose as an example of the tyranny of the capitalistic oligarchy; and if he is freed, he can carry on his work of socialism and anarchy quite as effectively in peace as in war. Indeed it is probable that this petition of amnesty which the President has granted, after its presentation to three successive administrations was offered partly with the very thought of placing...
...Congress opens; the President's message is delivered. All those afflicted with the midwinter's madness of political ambition must soon speak or hold their peace for four years more? all at least accept the occupant of the White House, who has the privilege of intimating that he has forgotten even such a matter as a Presidential year in the press of official duties...
...analysis on the shoulders of the Graduate Advisory Committees. It would be irrelevant at this time to defend or attack this criticism and the events which elicited it. But it is certain that the critics--and perhaps also, at times, the committees attacked and the Athletic Committee itself--have forgotten that after all the graduate Advisory Committees are merely representatives of the more powerful and more central University Committee on Athletics...