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...which a campaign has begun in Paris, and the movement made world-wide. Spells of coughing which sweep audiences at plays and concerts are largely the result of suggestion, as almost any one can muster up a sufficient tickling of the throat during the winter season to justify some sort of noise. Physicians say that the greater part of such demonstrations can be suppressed without the slightest possibility of injury to any one. What is most needed is a conscious effort on the part of those tempted to follow the leader, who may not himself be able to control...
That these meetings, however, were in one sense most successful is not as discouraging as it might appear. It indicates not that there is no interest but that undergraduates do not believe in the value of this sort of discussion. The Disarmament Conference, we believe, is being discussed constantly in the college not in a formal, organized way, with probably as much benefit as it there were frequent meetings...
...sort of auditorium that is required must, I suppose, be large enough to accommodate 3000 to 5000 persons. No floor space of such dimensions could be kept in anything like constant use for mass meetings, or similar large assemblies. On the other hand, just that expanse of floor space could be used very advantageously, I imagine, for indoor athletics. Yet even a fairly intensive use of the space for athletics would not necessarily prevent the space from being turned to account for large assemblies, as often as university meetings of any sort might require...
...writing will be judged for its literary quality and should be of the sort that might appear in any first class periodical...
...James--"Shavings" an adaption of Joseph C. Lincoln's novel. Mr. Lincoln's "Cape Coddities" of one sort or another have delighted thousands of people, and "Shavings" is no exception to the rule. It has, furthermore, the advantage of a more skillful dramatization than has been the fate of many a successful volume. Cape Cod folk have the double advantage of being both Yankees and sea-faring, and their converse has consequently the picturesqueness of both types. Life in a small town "down on the Cape" is almost certain to develop interesting characters...