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Once, when he was in the Grade Schools, the Vagabond was found carefully engraving a heart, embracing appropriate initials, on the cover of his desk. The knife is now lost, the owner of the initials is now forgotten, along with a hundred others, but what the teacher said still rings in his ears as loudly and crassly as the day when first she said it. The phrase she used is so old as to be termed a "saw", "Fools names like fools faces oft are seen in public places". Not very funny, not very new, but biting...
...Honors in Engineering Sciences a student must in addition select two approved courses not of elementary grade, chosen from the fields of Engineering Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Geology
...best paper of those submitted by more than 25 colleges. This prize of $500 will be awarded at the same time the local prizes are distributed, about a month after the Harvard winners are announced. A special committee selected by A. N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, will grade the papers and the names of prize winners will probably be announced next week. Neither the names nor standings of any contestants except the winners will be published...
...might be supposed that such antics would only be accomplished, without loss of face, by a low grade buffoon with small respect for his calling. Such is not the case. They are performed here by Will Rogers and become a typical Rogers product, amiable, offhand, bourgeois, amusing...
Well-paced, well-played. The Silent Witness, adapted from a play of the same name which ran in Manhattan last year, is a high grade stock product, with no undue pretensions. Good shot: Miss Nissen, who made her stage debut as an angel but has since concentrated upon demimondaines, sneering at her lover (Bramwell Fletcher) with such unpleasant petulance that, despite her beauty, spectators can condone his violence...