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Professor Perry read from a letter writen by a mother to her son in Christ's Church College, England, over 200 years ago, the key-note of which was "methodize your hours so as best to improve them." The advice was to have some system for everything in daily life and live up to it religiously...
Paris in 1870 found that lots of things it had thought rather nasty could become quite edible. And according to rumors floating through the key-hole of Germany's barred door, the standards of what go to make a square meal have become much rounded in that nation of full living...
...however,--or so it seems--that injudicious, wholesale cutting has removed necessary material and caused the last act to seem altogether wrong in its emphasis. The first two acts are splendid; the third wavers momentarily and falls a little below their standard, while the last seems entirely out of key with the rest. But the average struck is high indeed, judged by every modern standard...
...atmospheric artist Thackery is quite otherwise, and it was this quality of atmosphere one expected to encounter in Mr. Langdon Mitchell's adaptation of "Pendennis." Superficially it is attained, owing to the well known talent in production of Mr. Iden Payne. Settings, costumes, etc., are arranged to the key of 1830, the age of tasseled canes and wonderful waistcoats, when a copy of Don Juan lay on the dressing tables of ladies of fashion; a picture of old England in its autumn, smiling through the mist of factory smoke just beginning to rise. Unfortunately a production set in so delightful...
...Signal Officer' Reserve Corps has a light case of scarlet fever. The other four members of the University, Hamilton Coolidge '19, F. H. Harvey '18, John Mitchell '18 and Herbert Pulitzer '19 are in quarantine and are confined to the house which they have rented there. They enlisted at Key West and then went to Miami for training. It was impossible to get any actual flying during the first ten days after they got there as it took that length of time to repair the injuries which the airplanes had received in shipping. Soon after they had been...