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...House of Glass" by Max Marcin is at the St. James this week. It is a play that moves along easily enough, with the convict problem and the give-him-another-chance idea as motivators. Needless to say the problem it not solved; it never is. Nevertheless it is a good story. Mrs. Lake, wife of a railroad man, is the innocent victim of the Law (capitalized). Their troubles begin when her first lover turns out to be a house-breaker and she is convicted wrongly with him. She breaks her parole, marries Mr. Lake who is a crook hater...
...cooperative religion to a competitive system of life, is the problem that confronts us in the present day". These words formed the central theme of a stimulating talk given by the Reverend William Learoyd Sperry, Pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Boston, at the Phillips Brooks House yesterday evening on the subject "Christianity and Competition...
...Until the people who are engaged in the active life of the modern world bring themselves to understand the language of a cooperative religion instead of that of a competitive life it will be useless to endeavor to influence them by that religion". Dr. Sperry continued by outlining the problem of the struggle between Christianity and Competition, and concluded by saying that most of the intellectual fighting of the next few years will be concerned with the endeavor to solve this problem...
...that classes all books of fiction as bad until long years have proved them otherwise is not out of place in an institution that presumably desires to cultivate the arts. Perhaps it would be if the library possessed unlimited funds and space. Possessing neither to any great degree, the problem becomes one of choosing certain books which shall be of undoubted lasting value. Obviously modern fiction is a questionable element in building up a permanent library...
...college does not pretend to verse the undergraduate in the rules of his future business; that is the purpose of the graduate school. A college is satisfied if it can teach the undergraduate to reason, to think clearly. The problem of how best to accomplish this is puzzling educational boards throughout the country...