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...Wooldridge's "Sea Fantasie" fulfills its title. Without particular pattern, it is a chaos of clear ideas, a dream-fugue. For that very reason it succeeds. The "Rondel" and the "Answer to my Rondel" of Mr. Dobson, by their delicate felicity elude comment. Gentle craftsmanship linked with an alertly shy fancy, not mere prettiness, but poetry that whispers--this is Mr. Dobson's province...
Subsidies were given only on condition that all these faults were to be done away with. Ships had to run on fixed schedules and made lower rates to the public than before. The service was maintained under government inspection, under fines and penalties for failure in any particular, these fines being deducted from the subsidy. And if any ship refused freight at any port the owner had to call this fact to the attention of the government inspector by cable, if necessary to the next port, and if the inspector found any unused space on the ship, the ship owners...
...governing powers reside with these two bodies, actual control over ordinary matters of administration and discipline devolve upon the various Faculties. Most of the actual conduct of this work in delegate by the Faculty to a committee of its members, the Administrative Board: Each Faculty has charge of a particular branch of teaching in the University: Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are together enrolled by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Payment toward their tuition fee is collected by the Bursar,--one of the Treasurer's representatives in Cambridge...
Boston has three indoor athletic meet fixtures that can not be beaten the country over. I refer in particular to the B. A. A. games, the American Legion, and last, but not least, the Harvard Cornell Dartmouth triangular games in conjunction with the New England athletic championships. Also, it is a question in my mind which set of Boston games at tracted the most interest the past indoor season B. A. A. games were good. So were the Legion games. But for all round competition and interest I never saw a better set of games than the contests Saturday afternoon...
...danced appropriately, and toyed with a saxaphone. She was heartily applauded. Peggy Parker, assisted by Eddie Buzzell, appeared in a cheerful sketch involving a will, a widow and a few tunes. Jack Osterman showed his inimitable gift of entertaining an audience without doing anything in particular and Ethel MacDonough gave a brief series of monologues setting forth a typical day of a lady of fashion. The Balliot trio did a bit of clever juggling...