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...prevails and which is unpopular with many club members who feel bound by law in such a manner that they have no privilege of inviting friends outside their club in for meals. This is, however, a matter entirely for each club--as the Committee has pointed out--and the sole merit, as far as the university as a whole is concerned, in this part of the investigation is that it places the ameliorations before the public, not for the attention of the public but as the one way to communicate with all clubs as a corporate interest...
...that the shrew has been tamed to the satisfaction of Brattle Hall audiences and Shakespeare has laid away his saxophone in lavender and old lace, those interested may pause to inquire--just what is the destination of the Harvard Dramatic Club? As the sole survivor of non-musical theatricals in the University it has enviable opportunities to create for itself a public which shall honor it as the last remnant of a rich tradition. But those opportunities have yet to be fulfilled in accordance with their merits...
Powell Censured. Finally the resentment of Britons and U. S. citizens in China against the Coolidge Administration boiled over and the American Chamber of Commerce of Shanghai met and demanded resignation from its membership of the China Weekly Review, the sole U. S. owned newspaper in Shanghai. Its editor, John B. Powell of Hannibal, Mo., felt obliged late last week to re-sign as president of a prominent Chino-British-U. S. Shanghai club. For what was he thus censured...
Certainly, one can quarrel with the decisions. One might say, among other things, that the judges this year were reluctant to stray from the fields of conservatism. On the whole, however, virtue has earned its own reward. Practically the sole divisions of the Pulitzer selections which the average citizen is in any way capable of judging are those of the drama, the novel, and possibly that of the newspaper editorial. In "Abraham's Bosom" the jury has elected a thoughtful and sincere play; in "Early Autumn" a restrained and carefully finished piece of fiction; and in "The Herald Commends...
Unlike other critics whose sole purpose is wholesale destruction, Mr. Aswell has more or less definite ideas for the improvement of what is an unfortunate but over-advertised situation. In a previous article he argued that modern science and modern university education have removed many cobwebs from the youthful mind but as yet they have added nothing with which to refurbish the renovated area, no new creed which might serve as a guiding light; nothing to soften the rigid skeleton of science has been introduced...