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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louisiana elections are won and lost in the newspapers. When Candidate Wilson ran strongly last week, his votes feathered the cap of the New Orleans Item, edited by Marshall Ballard, "intellectual roughneck.'' When Candidate Wilson admitted defeat and withdrew, leaving Candidate Long with an enormous lead over impotent Governor Simpson and obviating a second primary, that was triumph for the New Orleans Item and The Shreveport Times, published by aristocratic Colonel Robert Ewing. Governor Simpson's trouncing by Candidate Long was a bitter trouncing for the famed New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...advent of frankness and the departure of chivalry, both characteristics, generally speaking, of the present age, are the targets for Miss Cabot's shafts. The cause of our lost manners, our disrespect for women, has been discussed before, and though it has in most cases been done in a sensational, non-scientific manner, the subject is perhaps of more significance than such Elinor Glyn articles would lead one to believe. There is no doubt that frankness has its virtues, and no one would care particularly to bring back the old days when there were unmentionables galore, "worse than death...
...Freshmen who have lost only one series of matches this year will meet the Lincoln Inn Society team at the University courts...
Whether any advantages have been derived from the abandonment of the English model, however, is a question which Dean Pound does not attempt to answer. He points out that in taking an independent course we have lost any benefit which might accrue from judicial experience, judicial empiricism, and independent courts. This is preferable, however, to undergoing that strong reaction which invariably follows on the heels of judicial depotism. A few dominating figures on the bench might illustrate very well the advantages of a strong independent judge but, after their passing comes lax criminal law, in the throes of which, according...
...standing of the teams is as follows: ALPHA LEAGUE Won Lost Percent Sigma Alpha Epsilon 2 2 1000 Falcon club 2 2 1000 Alpha Mu Sigma 1 1 500 Kappa Sigma 1 1 500 Trident club 1 1 500 Kappa Nu 0 2 000 Phike club 0 2 000 BETA LEAGUE Won Lost Percent Alpha Sigma Phi 3 0 1000 Sigma Alpha Mu 2 0 1000 Delta Upsilon 1 1 500 Lambda Cbi Alpha 1 1 500 Tau Epsilon Phi 1 1 500 Tau Delta Phi 0 2 000 Phi Epsilon...