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...Americans-The melting pot simmers slowly...
President Lowell has offered his cooperation in a letter to the paper, and now the officials of the Union have started an experiment to see just how keenly those who are taking pot luck about the Square wish to enjoy better eating conditions. With this installation of club tables an actual step has been taken toward a permanent system of this kind on a larger scale. Thus it is obvious that those who wish to see a central eating place, run by the University, where food can be obtained at sane prices and eaten in congenial surroundings in a fashion...
...Americans is different. For one thing, it dives into the melting pot business without fetching up an Irish-Jewish wedding. For another, it keeps itself, in this nervous age, as innocent of agitated movement as a stuffed porpoise. The entire second act, shunted in bodily from the vaudeville circuit, consists of a classroom scene, leaves the slight plot snoozing at practically the same complication it had reached when the curtain crept down on Act I. The audience was quick to appreciate that vaudeville interpolation. More than a series of dialect jokes is the picture of Life's graduating seniors...
This first contretemps safely weathered, there remained the problem of washing Tricky, the Queen's pet spaniel. Tricky had managed to soil her coat on a lump of railway grease. Hot water in quantities was requisite. Resourceful, a lady-in-waiting heated pot after pot of water in an electric percolator...
Against this becushioned background, a few of the poems stand out with humorous, cynical, and even philosophical vividness. Most noteworthy is "The Rebel," an answering epic to the challenge of the pot of Omar Khayyam...