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...Marion LeRoy Burton, President of the University of Michigan, in a speech of welcome discussed the desire of the American college student for freedom to think for himself. "The English student has intellectual freedom, and in this branch of life is considered a man, while in matters of conduct he is considered a boy and is curtailed by rigid rules. The American student must attend classes and take examinations and is considered a boy in this phase of college life; but he is treated as a man in matters of conduct. The problem ... is whether the student...
Scott (Tenn.) Burton (Ohio) A. F. Moore (Ill.) Bixler...
...rumor flies that Elsie Ferguson will appear with Sidney Blackmer in a play from the Hungarian by Zoe Akins, to be directed by David Burton, who did so magnificently with The Swan...
...Next Room. Burton Egbert Stevenson is probably best known for his colossus among anthologies?The Home Book of Verse. Yet once he wrote a mystery yarn called The Boule Cabinet. Eleanor Robson (Mrs. August) Belmont saw in it another who-killed-him drama and (in collaboration with Harriet Ford) managed the transposition. One will surmise that a mystery melodrama must be exceptionally good to warrant production after The Thirteenth Chair, The Bat and their descending dynasty. In the Next Room is exceptionally good. It states its problem, defies the spectator to solve it, maintains that defiance to the very closing...
...Jersey City, it became known that on Oct. 2 Burton S. Tucker, "unsophisticated country youth," 16, had married Mrs. Susan O. Simpson, "wealthy hotel owner . . . said to be about...