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...love affairs. Translated into English three years ago, it was passed by the Federal Censor but set upon by many a guardian of local morals. Last week a New York City court ruled that Novembre is not "objectionable literature," refused to ban it. Said Magistrate Jonah Goldstein: "The criterion of decency is fixed by time, place, geography and all the elements that make for a constantly changing world. . . . The practice of bundling, approved in Puritan days, would be frowned upon today. . . . In 1906 the play Sappho was suppressed because the leading lady was carried up a flight of stairs...
...illustrating the lack of any continuing criterion of decency, which is fast killing censorship in most U. S. cities, the New York Junior League last month opened an exhibition of banned books from the time of Confucius to the present. Among them: Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's Richard the Second, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The governor of a Chinese province once banned Alice in Wonderland because in it animals talked, thus putting themselves on a par with humans. Tsarist Russia, fearful lest moppets get fantastic ideas, banned Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales...
...business, medicine, and teaching will be the occupations of the majority of the Class of 1935, and chemistry, engineering, and architecture will be others of the more popular professions, if the indications of a poll made recently by Vincent H. Palmer '35 are any criterion...
...also stipulated in the book that Dr. Simmons must show, among other things, the extent to which Tchekov influenced, for better and for worse, the English short story as written, for instance, by the late Katherine Mansfield. We have no doubt, with the present work as our criterion, that Dr. Simmons will discharge his duty commendably...
While both teams have defeated Dartmouth and Princeton the Crimson skaters have rolled up 28 points to Yale's 19. Both sextets were scored on eight times. It is true that League games are not a thorough criterion, but Stubbs has been too careful of his men to allow them to play hard against other teams...