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A treatise could be written on the tremendous legal question involved, whether this tardly recognition will be retroactive legitimizing the careers of the great ghosts of British history from Banquo down and their more humble contemporaries, or whether the only parties affected will be the up-and-coming, ectoplastic, ghosts...
In "Pygmalion", the shrewd intellect of Shaw is at its clearest and wittiest. He divides the actual from the supposed or imagined with a two-edged sword. He creates true characters, pleasantly individualized. As in all his best plays, so in "Pygmalion" the dramatic technique is perfect. No machinery creaks...
In that age of new geography and England's adventures taking practical possession of the globe, Shakespeare added something to her domain; he found the Forest of Arden, The Witch-haunted Scottish Heath, The Magic Isle of Prospero, and together with these in the Midsummer Night's Dream, he enters...
Perhaps the most detrimental misconception in regard to the annual Student Conference is that it is a solely religious or missionary convention; this idea is particularly prevalent this year, due, perhaps, to the influence of the Des Moines Convention. Haunted by the phantom of an overgrown Sunday School picnic, many...
We may hope that some roving spirit may some day think it worth his while to guide the Lampoon's ouija board, and spell out the suggestion that fewer "special numbers" might raise the average of the publication. Perhaps there might be more well tempered satire of our college habits...