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...melodrama is broken up by interlarded discussions of each move from angle before it is made until one is tempted to agree heartily with Studdenham that if someone doesn't say something we're going to get nowhere. The difficulty with the "Eldest Son" from the average American view-point perhaps explains why the presentation at the Copley is the "first performance in this country". It is difficult to convince an American audience of the reality of a problem in which deep-rooted and time-rotted caste distinctions loom to such large proportions. This consideration weakens materially whatever...
...where the Tigers maintained a prolonged attack. For most of the period the play was down on the University's defensive line, but the Tiger wings could not break through and were forced to resort to long, ineffective shots. In the middle of the period Coach Gaw met the move by shifting Van Gerbig to a similar position with the result that play was materially speeded...
Perhaps, however, the President's move was not as much courage as it was policy. With the close of Congress near, the Senators in the opposite wing were fretting with eagerness to not about criticizing the Administration's foreign policy. Certainly there has been a turn toward a more favorable view of European participation recently, and the charges which the Democratic congressmen had stored up for use during the recess would have been effective ammunition against the party in power. The President's prudent compromise, which accepts the Court without the League, will considerably dampen those stories...
...Listening In" has many exciting moments. Indeed, as Jonathan Cumberland remarks to Mr. Morrison in the Prologue, "The action begins the moment you move in here." A house abandoned for twenty years lends manifold opportunities for holding the audience breathless, and if the thrills, like those of a roller-coaster, generally bring up short with a laugh, no one is the worse for it. Even the announced intention of the mysterious Mr. Morrison at the outset to prove that all spiritualism is the work of human hands does not impair the goose-fleshy qualities of Bleeker Hall. The fact that...
...their duty to offer the student a chance of considering various careers and choosing for himself before he is turned out to try them by hard experience. Education, it has often been said, is the ability to make the right choice. As yet, the University has made no definite move toward providing such guidance, though various proposals have been heard, and occasional speakers, at the Union and elsewhere, from time to time give useful hints and point out the prospects in certain fields...