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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sympathy between faculty and student grows stronger with every new discussion of the modern educational system. The latest mediator in the student problem is President Clarence C. Little of Michigan, who, in Scribner's has written a stimulating, and in some ways an illuminating article. Dr. Little has selected four topics about which, he says, revolves much agitation in University circles; he has, admittedly, chosen them from a mass of others an I he does not claim that any one constitutes an issue. Each, however, does bear direct relation to both the student and Dr. Little refers primarily...
...action does not constitute a crime. Socrates himself could not have more cleverly retreated from a cloud of threatening evidence; even Gratian would have been forced to admire the constitutional genius who prepared the briefs for the case. No matter what the eventual outcome is (and with this latest coup an imminent outcome grows even less likely) one may well congratulate the chief of the Four-square Bible Temple on her wise and nimble lawyers. Had she exercised an equal amount of perspicacity in concealing her whereabouts last May she would in all probability be searching at the present time...
Lately I have noticed your latest "smart" innovation, "The Cream." I have only admired your publication spasmodically in the past and now I think even less of it. What's the idea? Do you suppose anybody cares a "Whoop" what books your smart aleck book editor considers "the cream of the season's books"? There never has been a magazine that could get away with that sort of stuff...
...language. They were acclaimed, justly, as play-wrights of promise and the world settled back to await more words of wisdom from them. In time, their partnership was dissolved but now one of them has broken his silence. Which leads us, not altogether inevitably, to Marc Connelly's latest play, "The Wisdom Tooth", now at the Hollis...
American plays are corrupting the English language in its native land according to Mr. C. B. Cochran, London theatrical producer. No longer is the Mayfair patois spoken in England; instead one hears "the language of Broadway". Titled ladies, grown weary of formalisms, delight in this latest vogue. And the new rich are cured of dropping their his only to affect a dialed peculiar to the characters created by Mr. Ring Laidner. There ought, says the patriotic producer...