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...President Lowell once cogently observed: "As a people we have been law-abiding, not by compulsion from above, but from a sense of the fitness of things. The success of self-government is based on a confidence that one's neighbors will conform to the established rules of conduct, and anything that undermines that confidence strikes at the root of our civil life...
...name to Blind Husbands. "No one vill go to see de pinochle." Von Stroheim directed and played the lead. He arranged stories for other pictures. His best was Greed, based on McTeague, by Frank Norris. In his eagerness to make every job a masterpiece he consistently refused to conform to the commercial limitation of picture making. His films had to be cut to pieces to reduce them to program time. Producers became wary. His Wedding March, acclaimed by critics, was too expensive to yield profits. After he had spent many hundred thousand dollars directing Gloria Swanson in Queen Kelly...
When every one of these tenets has been flagrantly violated, it is not only justifiable but imperative that some action be taken. In the case of the Widener scrubwomen, the violation involved discrepancies in money as well as conduct. Only by repairing both can the incident be made to conform to Harvard decency and morality...
...will appear the night of the Freshman Jubilee, announced before vacation for May 23. With the proceeds of the publication, which is now on sale at $5 per copy, a large part of the Jubilee expenses will be met. Twenty-first in the series of Red Books it will conform in general to the conventional style...
...Flag-staff has been seeking it in the sky. Seven weeks ago a small object was observed, but it was not until yesterday, after seven weeks of constant observation, that the rate and the direction of the motion of this object showed that it could be certified to conform exactly to the orbit of the planet calculated by Lowell. Its position on March 12 agreed perfectly with the longitude which he had predicted...