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...second objection to the ideal--the size of the College. It has been said that one may know all the girls in Boston but as for knowing all the members of one's own class, c'est a rire, the obstacles of numbers is too great. From this numerical incubus arises a difficulty. The personal element tends to disappear from instruction. In any college the quantity of really eminent professors is limited; the more students in a college the less opportunity any student has to receive from these eminent men a stimulation and assistance adapted to his individual needs. Enter...
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...been placed in power, the American government has not hesitated to interfere in a financial and even in a military way. To many Latin Americans is seems that the influence of the United States, at first Intended to protect the infant liberties of small nations, has become a blighting incubus, stifling native development. The swaddling clothes, tenderly wrapped about these small peoples a hundred years ago, have, by natural growth of the protected object, become a straight jacket to cramp their initiative and curtail their liberties. The Monroe Doctrine, which originally protected Latin America from European imperialism, has become...
...difficult to determine fairly whether the Yale vote is but a sign of temporary mens iusana, or a result of an understandable desire to smash traditions, or in fact, as educators will fear, a last crushing blow delivered to free the glorious American sports forever from the age old incubus of scholastic fetters. If this latter is the real significance, the Yale Seniors are to be commended most highly for their unselfish, frankness. Other universities will doubtless try the same policy with hopes of comparable athletic results...
...fruit of Eden offered to him in the person of a lonely girl of the Georgia coast, prisoner alike of fear and a maniacal murderer. The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing the girl while she saves her own soul from the incubus of fear that has ridden her family. The tale is told with extraordinary vividness and pungency by King Vidor, a director who can evoke a heart-quaking spirit of mystery without a single trapdoor. Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel de Brulier are splendid instruments...