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...most plausible argument of the opponents of the Act regarding Motion Pictures submitted to the voters of Massachusetts, Tuesday, is the word "censorship". Why does that word at once awaken a feeling of protest? The fact is probably due to one man and one book. If John Milton, in his Areopagitica, addressed to the parliament of England, did not bring to bear every possible argument against the censorship of books, it would be difficult to find another...
...this new aeronautical association," stated Professor Edward Pearson Warner '16 of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter recently, "are, in brief, to maintain an agency capable of voicing a vigorous public opinion upon all matters of aviation; to awaken and educate the public mind to the possibilities of aviation; to supply an impartial medium through which the thought of all sections of the country may be collected and harmonized into a national expression of opinion; to encourage and promote the study and advancement of the science of aviation; to maintain...
Will people awaken to the situation before the ever-increasing instruments of horror a turned upon them? Or will Professor Sir C. S. Sherrington's supposedly scientific conclusion that all nations will ultimately be one come true, if it does at all, only as the result of a world carnage...
While magazines of this character are excellent; they cannot help but be merely sporadic engagements with the dead weight of splendid mental isolation. It needs something more than journals which reach but a comparative few to awaken the greater mass of the people to a consciousness of what is going on beneath the surface in world affairs today. A more than merely cursory glance at any newspaper within the last two weeks would have revealed the following facts...
...present Advocate, which I take as typical, are transitional; the old short-story formula is gone; the new is still in the making. Both pieces of work suffer from this lack of a guiding convention; the fancy is too unrestrained; the narrative elements are too scattered. They awaken the reader's interest in the persons of the event, the place of the event, but never in the event itself. In short, they are more essays than stories. Nevertheless, they both represent a striving after something far better than the vanished mode...