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This movement has long had much support; it is now time for Dean Leighton and the Student Council to take the lead in acting to abolish elections that mean nothing, prove nothing, and disrupt an otherwise fair and efficient method of Freshman self-government...
...last week (see p. 41), by the late Newton Diehl Baker, good Episcopalian, the N. C. J. C. last week launched its tenth anniversary celebration. For this, President Roosevelt, honorary chairman of the organization, wrote a letter declaring that "philosophies dominant in totalitarian states must not be allowed to disrupt the cordial relationships which now exist among Protestants, Catholics and Jews in America...
...returned to bring this grand new message of the inspirational values of open confession straight from the horse mouth of one Lady Wiggam to her own circle of friends. In one week end of sustained busybodying, Susan manages, by artful innuendo and a few lucky potshots, to disrupt the placidly illicit love life of her hostess, turn a well adjusted May-December marriage into a triangular mess...
...ranks high in entertainment, low as an artistic production. One fact probably follows from the other. For while a cast including Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Cary Grant, and Jack Oakie aims to please every taste, presence of such diverse and typed stars would without well-knit plot tend to disrupt any film into a series of bit performances. Such actually takes place, as the producers did not make out over well with their plot...
That juvenile notion may pass undisputed when the boys hold combat among themselves, staging high jinks in their own Yard. But it counts for naught when the battling children disrupt traffic, delay the homeward course of tired workers, endanger human life and destroy hard-earned property. Such antics deserve no indulgence. They should have sharpest repression and punishment by the police and the courts, and sternest rebuke by collegiate authorities, with quick and permanent expulsion of proved ring-leaders among the offenders...