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...impressed by your having so large a number of people living in dormitories, and especially by your Freshman Halls. Here you got something approaching the college system at Oxford: the dormitory is a unit; the proctor system resembles in a manner the English tutorial system. This gives you a certain center which one doesn't get at Toronto...
...interest in the college teams, and also, to a certain extent, the hero-worship of the players, which we see at home. But a sensible and intelligent press has perceived the dangers to college sport of too much publicity. The sporting pages present facts in a terse and dignified manner, and seldom dwell
...Rollo's Wild Oat" is a farcical comedy in Clare Kummer's most trivial manner. When we leave the theatre after the performance, we do not feel that we have come away with any lasting impressions. Yet this play entertained Broadway for a large part of last season, and as a sweetmeat to whet the palate it is a tasty morsel. The action, although a little slow in starting, is brisk throughout the play, and the dialogue is often sparkling. The one real drawback is the lack of reality both in plot and treatment, but this quality is the privilege...
...comparison of some accuracy can be made between the two teams, for both met and defeated the M. I. T. Freshmen, the Crimson yearlings in a decisive manner by a score of 14-8, while the Academy men were pressed to the limit to secure the large end of the count...
...average man-in-the-novel of today. How the heroine, above-mentioned, who would have been much more at home in a Fitzgerald "flapper" story, could have had any use for him is beyond comprehension. Mr. Quick's casual characterization is also attractive. He gives his impressions after the manner of some of our better cartoonists, by accurate trifles of description and analysis that have far more effect than less natural methods...