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...Monthly printed in April a defence of the beauty of aristocracy, it must have been clear that the other side should have its say. Mr. Moderwell takes up the cudgels for democracy, and plies them with no little skill and force. The preaching on either side is of the sort which will comfort most those who are already converted. The Monthly's own editorial comment on the opposing discourses suggests the really significant thing about them: "is it no inconsiderable achievement for an undergraduate to have a social ideal and to take the trouble of giving it tangible expression...
Here is a play with "a punch." Nor is it the first of that sort which its author. Mr. Paul Armstrong, has done. Earlier this season we saw his "Deep Purple," while "The Greyhound," his latest product, is a current New York success. The offering at the Plymouth is more than generously supplied with thrills, and yet, on the whole, is so skilfully constructed and acted as to rise very high above the conventional play of the type...
...Memorial Hall this year, as shown by the unusually large and constant number of patrons, there has been a marked falling off in the decorum of its members. Particularly at the dinner hour has this been the case. Men take liberties that would not be countenanced in any other sort of a public dining hall. At the slightest provocation some jovial spirit clinks his glass, the majority, nothing loth, follows suit and a bedlam is the result. With this increase of noise there has been far too much thoughtless, although withal goodnatured, throwing of food about the hall. In this...
...this leads us to another matter. For the past few years the members of the Hall have considered the dinner hour on April Fool's Day as a perfectly legitimate time for the suspension of all sense of good breeding and conventional table-manners. We sincerely hope that this sort of "fun" will be omitted this evening. If an appeal to the members' sense of decency and regard for gentle-manly conduct (as opposed to the manners of a fourth rate boarding house) can have any effect, let us be free from a custom at once hopelessly childish and also...
...interest which the University has shown in the series of Historic Operatic Concerts, and partly intended to stimulate the movement for a closer connection between Harvard and the Boston Opera. The opera itself is exceedingly dramatic and compact, requires little scenery, and is thus well fitted for this sort of production...