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...want to do anything that will remain as a blot on Harvard boys' records," Leahy annouced. The chief intimated that the evidence whereby Joseph Ambrose, James M. Blumgarten, Joh S. Caylor, and Frank Pemberton, Jr., were convicted of "disrupting a public assembly" by Judge Arthur Stone on October 18 was inconclusive...
...correcting prepared essays. Ghost writing of all degrees, varying from outside assistance merely in organizing a paper all the way to the composition of a finished product with notes and all, done independently of the student, still prevails to a certain extend at Harvard, despite all efforts to blot it out. As long as it continues to exist, neither the long theses nor the short essays prepared outside of class will achieve their aims...
...Executioner Phil Hanna of Illinois went to Milan. There last week, still sneering, Killer Chebatoris took the plunge that broke his neck. Obituary by Michigan's Murphy: "Michigan has led the world in the civilized attitude toward criminals. The hanging today was a blot on our century-old tradition, but I hope that it will have the effect of helping to abolish capital punishment from all the States in the Union...
...Georges Duhamel has done for his temperamental, crockery-smashing Pasquiers what Galsworthy did for his stiff-lipped Forsytes- told their tedious story with too many words-but he has enlivened it with Gallic interludes of scandals, passions and continental amours, any one of which would have been a major blot on the Forsyte escutcheon. Otherwise a puffy, ill-proportioned novel (848 pages), The Pasquier Chronicles reaches its modest distinction only when its central character, the tireless Papa Pasquier, gets involved in so many affairs that neither he nor the reader can keep them straight...
...those who feel that the continued rise of advertising photography will eventually blot out the commercial painter Fraprie had this to say: "A famous English artist way back in 1842, when the daguerreotype had just been invented, solemnly declared that in five years painters would be extinct. Well...