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Recommendation for the play can hardly be said to lie in its dramatic attraction, for the characters and action are so highly overdrawn according to present-day standards that one cannot for a moment take it seriously. Rather its justification is found in the inevitably humorous vein which the spectator must assume at the start, and which will give the piece interest as an example of almost ancient heroics and highly-colored incidents and speeches...
...Monday night. Among the speakers were Marquis Ferranti, the new Italian Consul at Boston, Isadore Bragiotti, of Boston, and Dr. La Piana of the Divinity School, who reported on the selection of a play to be given by the club in the near future. The other speakers dealt with present-day Italy and the gains she has made in the last few years...
...This distorted idea of the fact is probably due to an historic idea that the north is dreadfully cold, and to the fact that the present-day school geographies are usually incorrect on this point. Greenland, however, is an exception to the rules as it has a heavy rainfall and a high altitude, both of which factors tend to produce heavy glaciation. Nevertheless, on the great Canadian Archipelago there is no trace of glaciation for the past thousand years...
...intellect to "reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and grasp it." But a university must of necessity be hampered by the fact has it is practically unable officially to present to its students the opinions of men who are the leaders in modern affairs. Of course it can, and does, provide lectures by competent professors on every phase of present-day problems; but much good may be gained by supplementing these lectures with discussions by men and women outside the university...
...knowing that the law can not be adequately enforced against them. Since Australia has already passed through the stage in which the United States finds itself in regard to labor conditions and government ownership of industries, Mr. Sheldon's address should prove of great value in throwing light on present-day American problems...