Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wall Street (Columbia). Spectators who wonder whether the timeliness of this film's background?a stockmarket panic?is the result of extraordinary financial foresight or extraordinary speed in production should be informed that it is simply luck. In plot and characters Wall Street is less lucky. It presents the fundamentally interesting but familiar and clumsily treated situation of an iron-sinewed, low-born trader who is in love with a beautiful, cultured woman. Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle do as well as they can in these parts. Silliest shot: a ruined speculator committing suicide by jumping through an office window...
...curriculum was set up with two courses, a stiff educational one to prepare "career girls" for the Bryn Mawr examinations, a less strenuous one in letters and the arts for misses planning to take their places in Society. But each & every girl must pass an examination to get into the school. And each & every one is taught that character, competence, self-reliance come before Career or Society...
...House Plan is in operation. After living for a week in his new quarters in the cupola of the construction shack of Lowell House the Vagabond officially lays claim to the distinction of "first settler", and offers his less informed readers a report on the actual living conditions in one of the new houses...
...same length again, as they were at the time the earth-moon system was formed. That equality of month and day in the future will be forty seven of our days in length; at the time of the origin of the moon from the earth it was less than five of our present hours in length...
...plans fill a gap which the present organization of the Council left open. It has been rightfully felt that the round table discussions and entertainments of the last two years have not been adequate to creating the more intimate relationship between foreign and native-born students which a less formal arrangement might afford...