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...purpose of our Glee Club to raise the standard of College Singing was a joy to me so long as it was kept within bounds. The Harvard Glee Club deserve great praise as the first to conceive and carry out this purpose, thereby becoming the inspiration and pattern for other Clubs. For many years Harvard in competitions won the first prize and deserved...
Rightly or wrongly, the sincerity of trained debaters and speakers of the old-fashioned pattern, has come to be questioned. With the decline of the influence of the old style speaker in the courts, in the legislatures, and on the public platform has gone the parallel decline of courses of instruction in the universities...
...experimental poets of the day, of the Dial prize for the most noteworthy contribution to English letters during the past year, may be regarded as definite recognition of the new turn which imagistic poetry has taken. With the literature of the day presenting such a multi-colored and variegated pattern, critics prone to discover new literary epochs and fresh schools of thought are under a constant source of danger. The editors of the Dial, however, by selecting this ultra-impressionist for their award, have placed their finger on a phenomenon which if not new is at least the most distinctive...
...amusing pages is the LETTERS. Frontal attack, rude and discourteous, many letters seem even when accusing you of the same offenses. I fear some readers have a carping eye and are what I term piddling readers-they miss the flavor of the meat because they object to the pattern of the dish. More power to ye, Mr. Editor...
...well figure out what is going to happen. The hero is going to save the Princess from marrying the nasty old king. There is going to be a revolution and ultimate happiness. And so it is. Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel, plus the somehow inevitable fascination of this romantic pattern, make a pretty entertaining picture...