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...variety of opportunity has given the men a wide range of activities from which to choose. The perspective volunteer may select his job from a varied list of settlement house activities. He may serve as the advisor to a boys' debating club, an instructor in some kind of craft work such as wrought iron making, carpentry, or he may become a basketball coach, librarian, boxing or wrestling instructor, a teacher of English, arithmetic, or a leader of adults who are studying for their naturalization papers. If none of these more specialized fields appeal to him he may organize a group...
...Mackail, whose last book, "The Square Circle", was a Book of the Month Club selection, has written a pleasant and amusing tale, almost too full of coincidence, but so cleverly written that no one feels any particular objection. "David's Day" is ingenious and entertaining, not good enough for a book club to select it, but good enough...
...travel from Italy to Manhattan to conduct just one concert, reflected Arturo Toscanini, one really should select the Perfect Program. Last week he announced that when he leads the Philharmonic Symphony for the benefit of unemployed musicians April 28, his idea of perfection will be Parsifal, the Prelude and the Good Friday music, followed by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with its soaring Ode to Joy. Toscanini also cabled his choice of soloists: Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Margaret Matzenauer, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Basso Ezio Pinza...
...finding that Lowell wears well, nor is there anything particularly starting in the discovery. When gamins form a club in the old house at the corner they borrow a sheet from the family linen closet and paint an ominous skull and cross bones on it, or they select a secret pass word, or they conceive a now hand shake. It is all such jolly fun and so confusing to the other club round the corner. At times organizations are even formed for the sole purpose of endowing them with such delightful devices, and pretty soon the only thing that remains...
...Asked to select the six prettiest girls of the Junior Class at Syracuse University, Artist James Montgomery Flagg wrote: "Sure?I'll pick out the prettiest gals? if any?or if six. All sorts of colleges every year do this to me, salt water, fresh water and bilgewater colleges, and I have had to gaze on some of the most god-awful female mugs in this broad tho' narrow land! I know now why there are so many pretty gals in New York?all the ugly ones are in colleges...