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...played football and baseball. His mystic generosity continued. He zealously tried to found a monastic order, The Brotherhood of the Daily Life. He dressed as a laborer and preached to mid-day crowds. The Brotherhood never materialized. After Harvard he went to Oxford, joined George Bernard Shaw's Fabian Society. After Oxford he studied medicine at Manhattan's College of Physicians & Surgeons. Although he never received a medical degree, all hoboes whom he tried to befriend called...
...superfluous to point out the disastrous results which have attended opportunistic policies of publicity in universities of the past. We have only to look northward to Cambridge to see the most recent example. The sum total of this Fabian policy is always doubt and misapprehension, giving rise to all sorts of misinformation and surmise. Yale owes a debt to her graduates and undergraduates alike in keeping them well informed as to current university procedures...
...Wild Party (Paramount). In one of those colleges where all the girls are good-looking, talk musical comedy English, make love instead of study, and wear clothes that must have cost their parents a pretty penny, Clara Bow falls in love with a professor. Warner Fabian wrote the plot and John V. A. Weaver the drawling dialog of a story that has no connection with the verses by the same title published last year by Joseph Moncure Marsh. The sound-device, recording the Bow voice for the first time, sometimes lags behind, sometimes careers ahead of episodes which arraign young...
...Commission saw to it that these heroes, long since given up for lost, were reverently interred in eleven British cemeteries. Last week the I. W. G. C., tireless, diligent and unsung, published its ninth annual report, a monument to the labors of its Permanent Vice-chairman, Major General Sir Fabian Ware...
Jose Gonzalo Escobar, the Mexican rebel leader who has retreated with Fabian cunning half the length of Mexico, made a stand last week at Jiminez. It resulted in what Minister of War Plutarco Elias Calles called "the bloodiest hour in Mexican history...