Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON does not now pass on the merits of the Berkman case itself. It does feel that the students harmed their own cause by allowing the affair to take such a turn as to give the newspapers an opportunity to brand their action as a "Hunger March" staged by "radicals." The American public, much to its own disgrace, refuses to have any sympathy with a movement tagged "radical," regardless of the justice involved. Practical action to aid political prisoners should be planned with a full recognition of this condition, and such action should avoid antagonizing the public until every alternative...
...changing from pessimism to optimism. Take a look at agriculture and the ordinary business of the country and compare them with the picayunish antics on the New York Stock Exchange. The whole country, it seems, is watching a little group of speculators in Wall. Street-a peanut stand affair magnified out of all importance. Damn it all, it's not what the crowd in Wall Street thinks that controls. It's what the mass of people think and feel and, take
...testifies that he is a chip off the old block. Though he is an accomplished performer under the tents, the circus life does not appeal to him. His mother forgets past troubles in drink; Pierre simultaneously forgets and anticipates his troubles by making love at large. His first serious affair is with Joanna Ryan, a simple country girl. Though their love is true, simple Joanna is not so simple as to tie up with the wandering circus boy. When she finds herself pregnant she marries a farmer, Elmer Croy, who loves her too much to mind premarital infidelity. Pierre travels...
Following the lead of the six other Houses, Eliot House will hold the last of the spring dances in its Dining Hall from 10 to 2 o'clock this evening. Roy Lamson's 14-piece orchestra has been engaged for the affair. In spite of the extensive gardening which is going on in the courtyard, Japanese lanterns will be strung about the area...
...fact that little or no damage was done by the 'rioters' makes evident the fact that a spirit of arbitrary violence or viciousness was entirely lacking in the affair. The arrival of a warm spring sun has much the same effect on youthful human beings as on growing plants; all forms of life are bestowed with superabundant energy, and each of them utilizes a considerable percentage of it in the processes of growth. However, in the case of the modern college man, very little attention is given to the guidance of this lavish expenditure of springtime energy, and much...