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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heartless action of a New Jersey Borough Council, Princeton has suffered a loss which her sons must feel very keenly. For years past it has been the undergraduate custom to smoke in both the local moving picture houses during the progress of the evening's entertainment. This seems a slight thing, and is a measure which has often been urged by patrons of the more popular resorts along Washington Street in Boston. When in addition it is something which has been done by one's forbears time out of mind, or at least since the invention of the cinema...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARADISE LOST | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

Prizes of $100 each were also distributed to the Alliance Players of Jersey City, with Caleb Stone's Death Watch, an ironic comedy of the death chamber by Martin Flavin, and to the Gardens Players of Forest Hills, with Crabbed Youth and Age, by Lennox Robinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Texas Players | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

Fleming'25 of West Newton as Business Manager; Cornelius DuBois'26 of Englewood, News Jersey as Secretary; and the appointment of Donald LeBosquet Sweeney'26 of Newton. Highlands and of Leicester Haydon Sherrill'26 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Assistant Business Managers; and of Charles Wellesley Hillard'26 of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey as Circulation Manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEEK AT HARVARD | 5/17/1924 | See Source »

Since Proctor was clad only in a pair of blue running trunks and a white jersey, police scout the theory that he might have landed and gone away. Up to a late hour Monday night, college authorities held out the hope that Proctor had landed and gone to the Harvard-Pennsylvania boat races in an automobile. His failure to turn up now puts a decidedly dubious aspect on his disappearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONG SEARCH BRINGS NO TRACE OF STUDENT | 5/14/1924 | See Source »

Professor Morize resents certain newspaper write-ups of his recent address before the New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs, which merely exaggerated minor points of his speech and missed the real purpose. "It seems to me," he continued, explaining to the reporter just how he felt that American education, on the whole, puts the formation of character before the training of intelligence. This is natural if you go back to the origins and traditions of both nations--Anglo-Saxon mind versus Latin Culture. One may ask, today, however, whether the general conditions of our civilization do not call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCORES AMERICAN SYSTEM OF CHARACTER EDUCATION | 5/13/1924 | See Source »

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