Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marion L. Burton, President of the University of Michigan: "Dissatisfied with the selections of Bishop Brent, I named four Americans as the greatest 20th centurians: Roosevelt, Ford, Edison, Orville Wright. I gave honorable mention to Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George...
...STORM -CENTER ? Burton E. Stevenson?Dodd, Mead ($2.00). Almost anything is rather more than likely to happen in Algiers. In order to insure its vigorous occurrence, Mr. Stevenson takes at least two high-grade heroes, the same number of carefully selected villains, and projects them together among the sinister wilds of the Atlas mountains. An exchanged seat on a train, a mysterious warning, a veiled lady, a crazy archaeologist, a tangle of Moslem intrigue, all give infinite opportunity for slaughter, mystery, catastrophe. The two heroes are respectively Irish, and French; the villains are perfectly valid cinema sheiks. A capital...
Marion L. Burton, of the University of Michigan, was aggressive. He attacked American democracy, American materialism, American hatred of individuality as the causes of the decline of intellectual initative and independence in the American college today. Said...
...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...
...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...