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...Dramatic Club's decision yesterday to produce henceforth plays by Harvard undergraduates is significant in being an abandonment of its former fruitful policy. The club's productions in the last few years have been interesting and unusual; they have ranged over a wide field; they have often introduced playwrights hitherto unknown to the American stage and always they have presented plays never before seen in this country. Drama, like music, of foreign contemporaries is all too seldom given, and since the club has offered such opportunities, local audiences have shown marked appreciation...
Having traveled far and wide on the continent, he went, after his Oxford days were over, to explore Central Asia. His visits to Persia, Siam, the Pamirs, Indo-China and Korea were not the fitful visits of a tourist, but the premeditated acts of a scholar who traveled to discover and store a fund of knowledge that books could not give...
Fire broke out and partly destroyed the famed waxwork exhibition in Marylebone Road, London, known far and wide as Madame Tussaud's. Reconstruction is to begin at once...
Premier Herriot's battle with the Catholic Church has brought a hornet's nest about his ears, and may make his position as Premier even more precarious. The strike of school children in Alsace-Lorraino was merely a local skirmish in the nation-wide dissention, but it was the spark which set off the fiery Chamber of Deputies into fist-fight over Herriot's policy. Both sides have lined up for a fight to the finish on the question of what position the Church shall assume in French education...
...Lowrie heartlessly destroys the long-cherished belief that Europe excels America in wide dissemination of culture, in unrestrained individualism, and in tolerance. Centuries of enforced hallelujahs to a reigning caste have broken down any respect for individual merit, he says, and goes on heretically: "There is no taboo among us, however silly, that cannot be matched by an equally senseless one characteristic of European castes." Lest the minions of enraged ship-owners should rush incontinently upon him, however, Mr. Lowrie hastens to add that he is not discouraging in the least the desire to see the beauties of Europe...