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...Wife of the Centaur. A centaur was half a man, half a beast. Author Cyril Hume knew that when he named his book. The producers forgot it when they cast sleek John Gilbert for exuberant Jeffrey Dwyer, taut poet, who loved one girl (Aileen Pringle) and married another (Eleanor Boardman). The producers also overlooked the fact that the one girl, who had later to cope with an idiot husband, furnished well over a third of the tale's power. Cheers for this film, if any, should be dedicated to Miss Boardman, the one able performer...
...department, Dr. H. M. Scheffer said that Professor Whitehead was among the first two or three philosophers alive today. "What makes him a great philosopher" said Dr. Scheffer," is that he, with Bertrand Russell, is the foremost representative of the great English empirical tradition of Locke, Benkley, Mill, and Hume, and secondly that he is keenly aware of the philosophical limitations of empiricism...
...process of growth has been no smoother than one might expect in a city where a semi-monthly revolution or two is the ordinary distraction from academic pursuits, but the present year has seen important development in a unified administration looking forward to still greater progress under President Hume...
Assistants for one year from September 1, 1924.--Sherburne Friend Cook, A.M. in Botany; Edward Sagendorph Mason, A.M. B.Litt. in Economics; Redvers Ople, B.Comm. in Economics; Lyndon Frederick Small, S.B., A.M. '23 in Chemistry, Bert Sidney Taylor, S.B. in Chemistry; and Overton Hume Taylor, A.B. in Economics...
...Democrats and Republicans adjourned immediately after this gathering to separate rooms where they took the first steps toward organization. B. E. Lippincott, F. W. Whitney, S. H. Blackmer and D. L. Hellfrich were chosen as a temporary Republican committee while F. D. Ashburn, T. C. Hume, J. S. Platt, and A. A. Ryan were picked to organize the Democratic party. Coolidge, La Follettee, Hoover, Borah and Johnson clubs were formed within the Republican party and the Democrats split into groups who advocated Underwood, Roosevelt, McAdoo or Davis for the nomination...