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...Democrats were on their feet cheering. The gallery stormed applause. Administration Senators sat in silence, bewildered by an attack to which they had no answer. Greater than ever loomed the issue of Human Misery, now directly joined between the Senate's greatest orator and the President. Clearer than ever, if the President elected to fight on with his cohorts in the House, loomed the certainty of an extra session of a filibustered Congress...
...stimulation of individual initiative which this plan is to encourage is something to be sought after by all colleges. The student who learns something of his own accord retains his knowledge much longer and has a much clearer idea of the subject. In the training of the mind this voluntary learning has a definite advantage since the student has to choose his own subjects for study and must then exercise judgment...
...order to promote a clearer understanding of its work and also of its problems several universities of New England have founded a model of the League of Nations in which students, acting as representatives of the various countries, convene to argue and debate. This replica has no power save that of increased knowledge, its dictums settle little beyond friendly controversies, but its activity fills as definite a need as its parent overseas. The generation which fought in 1917 will not live to fight again, but their children may and it is important that they school themselves so they...
With this oddly grouped collection of seven strange tales, literature of the Argentine makes its bow to the U. S people under the watchful eye of Waldo Frank. Editor Frank explains his selections, places them historically, with a confusing foreword and clearer prefatory notes. After his explanations are read and forgotten the stories may speak for themselves, which they do in strenuous voices. Their unifying characteristic is a certain incoherence, which, in addition to violently poetic phrasing, makes it often difficult to tell what is happening. But though their literary quality fluctuates, their dramatic intensity seldom falters...
...sound waves are made to actuate a cutting instrument which carves the sound on the edge of the film in grooves like the grooves of a phonograph record. When the film is run off on a projection machine the sound is released by a sapphire roller functioning much clearer, much cheaper...