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...Playroom" was first given on March 17, and it has been considered the best Workshop production of the year. The acting of the two little girls, the Misses Barr and La Mont, has received wide commendation. The cast has not been changed except that Mr. J. W. D. Seymour '17 will take the place of Mr. Richard Lloyd, who is ill. The characters will appear as follows: Lizbeth, Marguerite Barr Fanny, Betty La Mont Ethel, Mrs. Thomas Loudon Cecily, Miss Vianna R. Knowlton 1917 Roger, Mr. J. W. D. Seymour...
...chief value of a college education lies, not in any specific facts the student may learn, but in a general wide development. College should teach men to face life, not merely a particular phase of life. But the trend of changes at other colleges is toward practical efficiency--it is essentially a part of that paternalistic Prussian atmosphere which pervades the country. The inauguraters of these changes seem not to care whether a man thinks, so long as he is a good cog in the machine of government...
...drill hall will at once be turned over to the newly established Harvard Engineering School for use as a laboratory for mechanical engineering. It is a large building, 280 feet long and 100 feet wide, with a power house immediately adjacent to it, and when fitted out will offer unusually ample facilities for laboratory work in mechanical engineering. It will also enable the electrical laboratories located in Pierce Hall to more than double their present capacity, and will increase as well the laboratory facilities in sanitary engineering and metallurgy...
...been called together to discuss the business, banking or professional problems of the nation, which, as a body of representative Americans it could face as well as any other. It has been called together expressly for the purpose of extending and binding still closer the ties of a nation-wide alliance of fellowship and congeniality which includes all Harvard...
...this law, Congress in effect 'anticipated by about six months a nation-wide prohibition under the Federal amendment. The amendment cannot be repealed; it must be enforced, beginning next winter. So far as any individual is concerned, it may make little difference whether wine and beer can be bought and sold for beverage purposes in the second half of this year, so long as they must go under the ban within a few months at the latest. But something more important than that is now involved. Having determined upon its policy, the Government should adhere to it for the sake...