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...accomplishments of the Eastern Inter-collegiate Newspaper Association Conference at Dartmouth over the weekend are such as to commend themselves to student thought generally, but with varying interest and enthusiasm. The agreement facilitating news exchange reacts first of all upon the papers themselves, while the question of over-emphasis on football has now become in the popular mind one of method and degree. But the decision reached at Hanover to give publicity and editorial attention to the National Student Federation strikes a note of especial importance...
...discussions of the Graduate Schools carry thus with them two clear purposes to commend them. In the one guise, they are informative. In the other they are published in the interests of the co-operative college...
...picture as a whole has, all Arlen aside, very little to commend it. The story is rather thin and the direction has watered it sufficiently to make it even thinner. It is an attempt to bring whimsy into the moving pictures. And Barrie alone can do that. Robert Cain, who acts the part of half villain, half friend of the family, or to be exact the hero's "battle field chum", does so with no apparent knowledge of the histrionic art. Frances Grant, the Mammy who tours around with Miss Mackaill as Miss Mackaill seeks her revenge...
...yellow. The progress of comity awaits a superstructure of fellowship to be built with social segregation as basis. It is none too good a foundation. The reluctance of Asia to relegate itself to cramped quarters for the sake of mere amity with a nation of abundant land, must commend itself somewhat to those who realize the fierceness of the Caucasian conquests of new worlds...
Seventy page report based on five months of keen observation and thoughtful analysis is a unique performance for undergraduates. Such is the record of the Harvard Student Council Committee on Education, and we highly commend them for their diligence and active interest in the affairs of the University. Such carefully thought-out and constructive suggestions from a student committee indicate a healthy condition at Harvard. Recognition of a malady, when a accompanied by definite steps toward correction, is half the remedy...