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...Soldier" completely revamped, reset, and brought up to date with the usual Shubert thoroughness. The constant outcroppings of well-worn musical comedy tricks leads one to suspect considerable alteration from the original. There is mention of flappers as well as of other things quite unknown "when Hector was a lad", and the stage business is straight from Broadway. Indeed, it offered a strange contrast of methods to find the modified recitative of the original score standing side by side with stage capers of the Fred Stone school. Consequently, only the sureness and restraint of Mr. Brian's playing prevented much...
...Shropshire Lad" of A. E. Housman, formerly available only in an English edition is now offered on the poetry list of Amy Holt. This beautiful collection of truly Greek poems by an eminent Greek scholar is not generally known, particularly in this country. Its publication by Henry Holt is a cause for much rejoicing...
...Joseph Milton Hartley '23, of Fairmont, W. Va.; Daniel Stewart Holder '24, of New Orleans, La.; Frederick Howard Hovey Jr. '22, of Montclair, N. J.; Charles Joseph Hubbard Jr. '24, of Readville; Frank Jewett Johnson '22, of Memphis, Tenn.; Richmond Keith Kane '22, of Newport, R. L.; Alexander Haven Lad Jr. '22, of New York City; Charles Clark Macomber '22, of Newtonville; George Owen Jr. '23, of Newton; and Richard Robertson Higgins '22, of Winchester, Manager...
There is a popular song whose refrain runs thus: "Isn't it strange how the times have changed since Grandpa was a lad". Man faces now, as always, the problem of working longer hours and so producing more, knowing that beyond a certain point the fruits of his labor will accumulate faster than he can use them in his shortened period of leisure. Somewhere a balance must be struck. It is possible, however, to increase the productiveness of labor through the improvement of the material arts. This is what the present age is doing. We now turn...
...choice of the opening wedge should, however, be made with the greatest care. "You can drive a horse to water, but you can't make him drink". Forcefully to implant the recalcitrant lad in the midst of a pile of "classics" is likely to be fatal. He must be nursed along from old tastes to new. There are, fortunately, plenty of books possessing the intensity of action of the "dime novel" together with that cleverness of style which somehow creates an atmosphere of reality lacking in the latter. Men like Kipling, Mark Twain, and, above all, Stevenson will almost infallibly...