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...heavy problem play. He is an elderly man whose motto has been "have a good time", and who has lived up to it; and whose "religion is a respectable pastime for Sundays". He is the embodiment of common sense, the foil to his rebellious protege, Charlie, and the saving grace of the performance. He is supreme in all business affairs, but, like most great men, he has one weakness--his daughter, Rosie. Her character, as portrayed by Catherine Willard, is a contrast between the self-willed rich girl and the "bloomin' angel" who plays Santa Claus to all her father...
...name has all the flavor of a national tradition to the general public. In novels of ten years ago, if a fashionable heroine wished a resplendent portrait as the finishing grace of her career, Sargent was inevitably called...
During the summer of 1922 the Mission supported The Harvard Daily Vacation Bible School which was held at the Grace Methodist Church in Cambridge. Mr. Ralph P. Bridgeman '18 served as the principal of the school with three teachers under him. There were 123 students enrolled at the 22 sessions which extended from July 5 to August 3, 1922. Each session lasted for two and one-quarter hours. Both the parents and children were enthusiastic over the benefits of the school, and the Committee is planning to support the school again during the summer...
...bill sponsored by Chief Justice Taft has already ben introduced into Congress to relieve this condition. The object of the bill is to make all appeals, except those in certain kinds of cases, " as of grace and not of right." In other words, the Court will have the right to go over the cases presented and select for consideration only those which it considers important. By this means the Court will be able to secure the leisure necessary for the proper consideration of its important decisions...
...catastrophies of the world war. The reason it did not suffer was that even the best armies in Europe did not dare to put foot on Switzerland, a terrible temptation, because it must be admitted that the army that could have gone through would have given the "coup de grace" to the other. They did not dare because they knew they would be whipped and why?--Because in its youth Switzerland had been prepared for the only kind of citizenship on which any country ought to rely. Switzerland with no military burdens, with no standing army, so called...