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...were only quashed by the constabulary. The bad taste which characterized the fracas at one of the "Bremen" sailings last year has recently been exhibited again in more intense form in the controversy over Heidelberg's invitations. If the hissing that accompanies newsreel shots of the "Hindenburg" is any criterion by which to judge a general attitude, than the visit of Germany's new airship will be a total loss so far as that nebulous international bluff, good-will, is concerned...
Concentrators' reports on the Field of Psychology surround the Department with no rosy glamour of praise. Only in research is the personnel fully qualified. Judged by this criterion alone the field at Harvard is the equal, if not the leader of any other department in the country. This, however, nearly exhausts the favorable comment on the Field as a whole...
...Amateur Gentleman (Criterion). Hollywood producers who let Douglas Fairbanks Jr. go off to England to seek better roles and show what he knew about picture-making might do well to take a look at this sample of his ideas. The Amateur Gentleman set records in several London theatres. It was made by Fairbanks at the Gaumont plant, with money supplied by a London syndicate headed by Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, rich, conservative M. P. from St. Marylebone. A large canvas of early 19th Century London, it preserves with florid elegance the swagger of its period. In the early...
...lies in the protection that it provides against politics and party influences. Students will be selected in the same manner as for West Point and Annapolis, and the members of the Cabinet will form the Board of Directors. Merit and length of standing in the service will form the criterion for promotion, and the evils of the 'spoils system' will be materially reduced...
...tonight's talk. Mr. Frost believes that there are four fundamental classes of poets, those who value poetry for its linguistic or purely technical content, those who find its worth chiefly in its character as a historical document, those who use the manifestation of wisdom as a poetic criterion, and lastly, those who find the philosophy in poetry its most valuable element...