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...Significance. Arthur Train has never done better. His gift lies not in narration, though his style is eminently readable. His plots are usually negligible. But he is past master of the art of dramatizing the problems?social, legal, economic?of tangled modern life. His characters are in many cases vividly drawn, but in the main they are subordinate to the examination of the intricacies of the social structure. Peculiarly in a position to know the very rich and the very poor, together with the legal mechanism of their interrelationships, he has the knack of dragging dull facts...
Captain Blood. Sabatini, it seems, is God's gift to the silent drama. He is a glutton for Romance, leading the present field of doublet-and-hose designers by several hundred thousand copies. He is so good at this sort of thing that his yarns must inevitably make sturdy cinema matter. Captain Blood is another pirate argosy. A young Irish physician embroils himself with King James and is sold into slavery to a West Indian planter. While pirates are looting the town, he leads a sortie of slaves, out-pirates the pirates, and sails away to become a buccaneer...
Saturday night the University announced the program for the building of the new Graduate School of Business Administration which is to be erected with $4,000,000 of the $5,000,000 gift made to the Unviersity late in April by George Fisher Baker, a New York banker. The remaining $1,000,000 will be used chiefly for the development of the grounds...
Coach Mahan has a thorough, if not a professional, knowledge of baseball, an unusual gift of leadership, and a high sense of fair play, Under his regime the percentage of wins may well increase and, what is, fully as important, insures on the diamond for coming seasons the high plane of sportsmanship which should characterize Harvard sport...
...announced yesterday afternoon at the H. A. A. that work on the contemplated baseball cage, the gift of an anonymous donor, will not be begun at present. The exact date when operations will begin is still clouded with uncertainty, but Major F. W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer, admitted that there was no likelihood of the cage being completed in time for the coming season...