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...keeps an eye on the doings and sayings of "this giddy globe" as reported in the columns of the daily press can have failed to notice the increasing flutter and agitation caused by the extravagant, immoral ways of the younger generation. Educators, reformers, and social service workers join battle on both sides. One day it is the automobile, the next it is lack of religion, and recently the opinion has been voiced that the girl "vamp" is to blame. While every so often the country is assured that its youth is at heart wholesome, and needs only to be directed...
...change would undoubtedly be welcomed by the undergraduates. Probably not one student in a hundred is genuinely interested in declamation; there is a flutter of interest in declamation each spring but it seems to be caused only by the two hundred and fifty dollars offered in prizes, and it dies away as soon as the prizes are awarded. On the other hand there is a substantial proportion of the students who are interested and give much time to debating work, not only in the debating societies but in the courses offered by the Faculty...
...superb depth of color. While at Bath, Gainsborough also painted a great many landscapes, which are now considered his masterpieces. He had a knack of giving a momentary effect to his pictures. Horace Walpole caught the spirit of his picture, "The Mall," and said it was all of a flutter like a lady...
...HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 7. - The Yale Athletic Association received a proposition from the faculty conference committee of the University of Pennsylvania, which has caused a flutter of excitement on the Yale campus. It is signed by George W. Pepper, secretary of the committee, and calls attention to the charges of professionalism which have been so frequent in the newspapers recently, relative to the members of the University of Pennsylvania football eleven, who are arbitrarily termed "professionals...
...public take in the affairs. Take the recent game between the two leading foot-ball teams. The New York papers say that the polo grounds never held so many or so wildly enthusiastic spectators; the return of the victors through the avenue on a coach called out the flutter of banners and choruses of cheers from the windows and balconies and pavements, and the newspaper press sent out a half dozen extras to announce the result. And when we consider the character of the attendants upon the game, it is certainly suggestive of its immense power over the people...