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Experimental theatres in the last few years have been blossoming like the proverbial dandelion, and most of them have been almost as ephemeral. Our local specimen, the Boston Stage Society, seems to have survived the winter, and bids fair to become a hardy perennial. This earnest group of amateurs is working under conditions which make dramaphiles incline to point them out for charity. This first production, it is said, cost them but fifteen dollars for costumes and scenery: but with the insignificant admission charged, and the meagre patronage they have received, even such economy is no assurance of a safe...
This will be the last opportunity for men to make the Glee Club this year. Those chosen will be eligible for local concerts and the spring trip, which is to be held in April...
...happens that all three of these factors operate to the disadvantage of the New England roads. No road in New England has a haul of more than 200 miles; and most of the freight handled in New England is not from terminal to terminal, but to local points along the various lines. The trains must be made up again at almost every junction and long through freight is unknown. New England is really only a gigantic switchyard...
...real evil of professionalism is not that certain laborers receive their hire: it is that they take the place of the true amateur. Where the imported athlete flourishes, local talent withers. Each myrmidon deprives dozens of good men of the incentive to training. When the true amateur spirit prevails, a college centers its pride not merely in the prowess of its teams, but also in the gross number of its students who learn to love sport for the sake of sport and of the health in body and in mind which it engenders. No institution is secure in virtue until...
...removal of illucisey and for the propagation of Ameriesnism while $50,000,000 is set aside to level the ap- portunities in public, elementary, and secondary schools. The latter distribution is to be made equally between the children and the teachers the state deciding upon the local distribution, though it is put under certain restrictions by the Federal Government. Another item suggests that $20,000,000 be appropriated for physical education, and instruction in the principles of health and sanitation. The bill was reported favorably by a committee in the 66th Congress, but it was not acted upon...