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Sprightly Invitation. Though the rift between Asquithians and Georgians is too wide for Mr. Lloyd George to step automatically into the leadership of the party he did not neglect to bid for that post last week in a speech at Barnstaple. After referring to "that great Liberal leader, Lord Oxford, one of the most illustrious of the party's brilliant array of leaders," Mr. Lloyd George continued: "It is a crime to waste energy and enthusiasm on personal feuds...
Nevertheless, the party rift is a wide one, and five sacraments deep. When the presiding bishop, presumably a neutral, declared his intention of attending a congress of high-roaders, the low-road Episcopal press became filled with reverent indignation. When the bishop, the Right Reverend John Gardner Murray, refused to change his mind and did attend the congress, last week in Milwaukee, this indignation continued, high-road Episcopalians being filled with a corresponding amount of reverent elation...
...unquestionably the most sensible means of approaching the study, since plays and their productions are inseparable. Such a composite picture, dealing with every aspect of the problem facing dramatist and producer--the monoply system, the democratization of art, the vastness of the playhouses, the endless litigation, financial failures, the rift between artist and public, the custom of "damning the play," the growing attitude of the T. B. M. coincident with the rise of industrialism, the conservatism of the pit, the popularity of triple bills, the indulgence of the audiences in Old Price riots--such a picture might easily have become...
...cause of this extraordinary rebuff only a trifling party insubordination and an attack upon the Government (Conservative) party toward which the Earl has leaned so long, while Mr. George, tugged in the opposite direction, revealed the true origin of the Earl's spleen?exposed anew the gaping Liberal rift...
Memorial Hall failed for reasons sufficiently obvious to all those who were closely acquainted with the University. That it has nevertheless left a rift in undergraduate life is beyond question. It is to be hoped that, as President Lowell suggests, the University will take under advisement in the not too far distant future some plan for its replacement, not in the old form so as to revive the old difficulties and objections, but with changes adapted to the transformations in modern Harvard life more centrally located eating half smaller, and not requiring mass attendance for its success even...