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...Value of Criticism" was the subject which Dr. G. A. Gordon spoke upon. Criticism is good judgment applied to those things in which one is deeply interested; it is not pleasant to receive at the time but we appreciate it later. The highest forms of humor and morality are identical, and when the former deteriorates, the latter declines also...
More nearly than any other German play, unless it is Sudermann's "Heimath," of our immediate time, "Alt Heidelberg" is a universal, almost a classic piece. Even mistrustful Paris has seen it gladly, while American audiences long since warmed to its sentiment and its humor. German it is at every turn; in its satire of the petty routine and stiff-backed etiquette of the modern Pumper-nickel that Meyer-Foerster calls Sachsen-Karlsburg; in its glimpses of the life of the students at Heidelberg; and, above all, in its two sentimentalists--the old tutor, Juettner, dreaming over the university...
...recent years the Pudding spring theatricals have depended for their success primarily on the music and dancing, the humor being left mainly to the inspiration of individual performers. This, in view of the Pudding's traditions, is unfortunate; but it is fair to say that the Pudding theatricals have as a rule contained quite as much comedy as the average modern comic opera. This year's performance would fall distinctly below even this level of humor were it not for G. P. Gardner's remarkable take-off of a noted dancer's "dance of the five senses." This travesty...
...terms comes so near incurring the charge of being something less than gentlemanly in its attitude towards its sister of the summer. This unfortunate tone is not altogether lacking in Mr. Moore's sketch, but it is hardly the dominant one. Some sense of pathos, a good deal of humor, and a striking power of seeing in vivid pictures, make this an uncommonly telling piece of writing. Nobody has better expressed the half-lost feeling which the Yard in July gives the "regular" than has Mr. Moore when he speaks of a group of undergraduates "feeling as if Harvard...
...Cole's contribution, on "The Glory of Football," is somewhat too subtly scornful to have the effect he intends, though it may help to correct the lack of humor and proportion with which this matter is commonly viewed. Even the editor of the "Illustrated" feels called upon to justify the publication of a criticism of football! Both Mr. Cole and W. Lippmann '10, who writes a sympathetic letter, dwell on the spectator's aspect of football, while J. Waid '10 replies with the familiar indorsement of the game as a school for the manly virtues. But the whole discussion loses...