Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play, "Fireman, Save My Child", which burlesques the rivalry which used to exist between the old volunteer fire companies, W. W. Ryan '30 will play the role of the "heroine", while F. R. G. Giddens '30 will take a comic part...
...television on the broadcasting of motion pictures. There are already several stations, at New York and other places, equipped for this purpose and receiving sets are now on the market; but so far the experiment has not been successful. There is more than a possibility however that what imperfections exist in the new development will be removed and that before long we may give up the theatre altogether and see the latest screen productions exclusively in our homes...
Greater efficiency in the management of student affairs might occur with the inception of this experienced direction. Were it not that extra-curricular activities exist for other ends beside the mere accomplishment of office routine, the plan would have no apparent flaw. But the function and benefits of these undergraduate activities are so essentially divorced from the idea of formal instruction that any move to bring the two nearer together very much resembles an encroachment. Far more ultimate good is to be had from the self-teaching and individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention...
...There must be something utterly wrong for such a state of affairs to exist, and I can only surmise that local conditions and requirements have not been sufficiently studied. Some faults there undoubtedly are in our salesmanship...
...despair, last week, Postmaster Crick resigned and enlisted in the Navy. Therefore Sir William Mitchell Thomson, His Majesty's Postmaster General, was earnestly besought to send a Welshman to juggle polysyllables in Sailor Crick's stead. Darkly brooding upon this matter, Sir William fretfully observed to correspondents that "doubts exist whether the spelling of the town's name really...