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...stage production and action as the present, where hardly a thing is left to the imagination of the audience, the reappearance of this play can be nothing but a great stimulant to everyone. Those personal powers of visualizing which have laid dormant in most of us are awakened to splendid things by the complete success with which Dame suggestion is introduced throughout. The subtle Frenchman who is responsible for this piece certainly did not regard his audience as ignoble or stupid, and honor is his for this count...
...penchant for the pictorial run away with him. It is true he speaks no more of the sea as "an enchanted moan," but allows the moon to shine brightly on a snowy hill above which is a black sky. Nevertheless, a pretty movement runs throughout, the idea is splendid, and the verses are well finished...
...supervision and advice of the group of boys who furnish some problem at the time of their examination has been eminently satisfactory. Many of these students could not have been reached in any other way than by a physical examination. In general the Freshmen have represented in each year splendid types of promising young manhood...
...possible candidates for the subsequent evils dependent upon faulty posture. Where-ever possible simple directions were given for the correction of this fault. On the other hand 88 per cent. of the Freshmen presented themselves with good sound feet. In this field it is easy to see a splendid opportunity for improving the physical equipment of the students...
...attaché to Berlin, and later as instructor at our Service Schools including the staff college. While his separation from Harvard at this time is a distinct loss, he is ordered to Washington to undertake a task of greater responsibility and importance to the nation. Captain Bjornstad is a splendid man with a master mind...