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With last night's performance, the fall production of the Dramatic Club came to an end. As the work of the press agent is done and even the critic has wiped his pen and turned to something else, the subject, from the point of view of news, is "dead". But before the "Life of Man" passes completely off the stage, to be classed carelessly with "revivals" and the "Russian Movement in America", some notice should be taken of what the Dramatic Club has accomplished...
When Yale was losing a system, Harvard was gaining one to which it has clung with vigorous tenacity ever since. But in the eyes of the sporting critics it is now Harvard's turn to crumble. The edict comes from the press writers of the metropolis that the "Haughton system" is obsolete and must be completely revamped if it is to hold its place among the football powers. The old deceptive style of playing; when the right halfback carried the ball around the right end and the opposing team thought the left halfback was carrying it around the left...
...sports contests with Oxford are drawing near. Prophecy is always fatal and in nearly every case the teams which are favorities in the press are defeated. The first to take place is the relay race which is being run off on Friday, December 1. The Rugby football match is being played on December 12 and the Association football match on the following...
...Western Electric Company has just started publishing a sheet containing articles principally on scientific subjects, called the "Western Electric Press Service". The paper is maintained at the suggestion of several hundred newspapers with the purpose of suggesting subjects for special articles which might be published by newspapers...
...foreigner with more than seven lines to his credit in the current "Who's Who" is regarded as eligible to lecture the American people. It is a pity that the celebrities of by-gone days could not have had similar opportunity. Napoleon would have edified thousands with a talk press-agented as "Why I Kept My Hand Under My Waistcoat When I Posed For Photographs." Nero, lecturing on "Music, a Flame", would have been a boon to students of Music 4. And the gentle Samuel Pepys, with his eye for insignificant details, could have constructed a series of lectures...