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...court has never ruled that the federal government is powerless to prohibit child labor directly, as the present child labor law would prohibit it. Mr. Smith's parallel with the sumptuary Eighteenth amendment is an unfortunate one. The fact is that the eighteenth amendment was passed, and only a national revolt at its philosophy forced its repeal. The eighteenth amendment could not have been passed if its exponents had placed their hopes on the taxing power, or the interstate commerce clause. Behind the present child labor law a very simple strategy is visible; the example of the eighteenth amendment indicated...
...Italy in the Eighteenth Century," Professor La Piana, Sever...
...Balderston's charming and successful play has lost little in its transition to the screen. It might be objected that the screen has made the throwback to the eighteenth century too explicit, and thus jeopardized the theme by an unnecessary contact with reason. But so much of the delicacy of this journey between centuries is the mind and heart of a single man has been preserved that the objection would not be fair. Leslie Howard is just as convincing as he was on the stage, and his witty pantomime responds admirably to the great opportunities, and the greater responsibilities...
...CRIMSON, Mr. William I. Nichols makes the suggestion that Holden Chapel be restored to its original state by the time of Harvard's tercentennial celebration in 1936. Professor Samuel Eliot Morison puts forth the more ambitious proposal that the Georgian beauty of Harvard Hall as it existed in the eighteenth century be restored by means of rather extensive alterations. While the latter project might be ideal, it would undoubtedly be more expensive, in addition to depriving the College of much-needed class rooms...
...Dunster House Bookshop now has on show finely bound books of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from collections of Augustan poets to the woodcut books of Clare Leighton...