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...recruit being detailed for some rather hazardous undertaking was reprimanded by a non-commissioned officer for allowing his knees; to shake; the inference being that he was trembling with fright. But the recruit repudiated the idea and countered with the statement that the wind got up his trouser legs...
Harvard continually proselytes, declared a prominent official of the University recently, not to recruit undergraduates, but to obtain the finest possible faculty material. The announcement of the illustrious additions to next year's teaching staff bears out the truth of this statement and gives prominence to President Lowell's belief that, if Harvard is to retain its supremacy, it is essential to wait sometimes several years rather than fill the faculty for a generation with good but not exceptional men. The mills of the gods grind slowly and silently, sometimes too silently, for it is seldom that the University...
...breath and thereby commit critical suicide, be it noted that they continue in I'll Say She Is. Joe Cook and James Barton, further favorites of the erudite commentators, are with us in the Vanities and The Passing Show. W. C. Fields, last year's most ribald recruit for the comedian championship, returns later in a show of his own writing, The Old Army Game. Most everyone knows that Will Rogers is in the Follies...
This is not Cabot's first appearance as an actor. In the 1921 Pudding Show "Wetward Ho," he played the part of William Boff. F. E. Parker Jr. '18, commenting on his ability as an actor, said: "Flo Ziegfeld would dearly love to draw such a recruit to put new zest into his annual Follies...
...civilians like the Play Jury. No people except the New York Police are proper stuff for cleaning out the theatres, nobody but the Grand Jury is capable of judging and handling this rottenness in the body politic. The explanation for this stand is plain; the city government means to recruit more policemen, whether by fair means or foul...