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Journal of a Crime (Warner). A jealous wife (Ruth Chatterton) shoots her husband's mistress. Thereafter, the husband (Adolphe Menjou) fixes her with a bilious eye, waiting for her to confess. When this happens, she goes mad and he feels sorry. When last seen the couple are on a terrace above the Mediterranean, he a misanthrope and she a crackpot, brooding harmlessly in deckchairs...
What has become significant is that the experts who study ways and means of getting tax revenue plainly confess that there has to be a profit system. For Uncle Sam has gone into partnership with the productive capacity or earning power of individuals as well as companies. In a nutshell, the Government splits on a thirty-seventy basis on all $100,000 incomes and, while the proportion may be open to debate, depending on what amounts are desired to collect, there can be no doubt that the treasury's fortunes are dependent upon a continuance of a system of rewards...
...secondary position intellectually as compared with Wisconsin. Is that just one more American Intellectual injustice, or has this matter of foreign population, supposed to work in favor of Iowa, been counted as against it? Wisconsin is much more German, much more Scandinavian, than Iowa--and that seems to confess the German stock stronger than the Yankee. And now Minnesota, with its strong Scandinavian content. That State has already a Norwegian college--an American center of a purely Norwegian culture. No doubt we shall have some Norwegian "fellows" at Harvard, in the new sense of the word as we already have...
...Weather Bureau has been trying to answer over since its inception. As yet it has met with little success. George II. Noyes '97, senior meteorologist of the Boston office of the United States Weather Bureau, can trace the path of a storm with surprising accuracy but is forced to confess ignorance when asked why this winter has been so unusually severe. However, it is interesting to delve into the history of an individual storm such as the blizzard which has plagued Bostonians yesterday and today...
...risk of being found sentimental, I dare confess that I think that teaching is a mission. We are not here merely to create other puny scholars in our own image, but to send out into life men who shall, in the words of Pericles, be most completely and most gracefully self-sufficient in the face of the most varied circumstances. I know that I am not speaking for myself alone when I say that I had rather send forth one such man than be the lauded agent in dragging the poor bones of the dead from the oblivion to which...