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The members of this year's Council, besides exhibiting naivety the equal of its predecessors' a year ago, are even more to be blamed, for they have failed to profit from experience. Already rumors are current of activities taking advantage of the Student Council's lack of foresight and judgment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNE GRANDE INNOCENCE | 5/20/1930 | See Source »

Then finally, those of us who in college became interested in seeing the status of laborers rise and the policy of employers become more human are disgusted with the University's futile attempts to justify its miserly wages. Even if they are technically above the minimum level, still it was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rubbing-It In | 3/20/1930 | See Source »

But another surprise awaited me in Tun-huang. In the course of my travels through Chinese Turkestan. I had heard reports about a great find of manuscripts which had been made a few years earlier in one of the caves. When I was at Noumchi, the provincial capital, I had...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PELLIOT TELLS OF CAVE EXCAVATION IN CHINA | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

Motives: his wife is with child by his brother; his mother has observed this. Thus-out of love or pity for the invalid-mother, brother or wife would have reason to spare the invalid the pain of disillusion. Suffice it to say here that love was the motive; and you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

The bevy of self-appointed sociologists who make it there business to compare every phase of American education with the English system which has made the Anglo-Saxon race predominant on every playing field, battle field, and tropical trading post in the world will be hard put to it to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IDOL SPECULATION | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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