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...interest which European students manifest in affairs of state evidently comes from their assumption that it is their unalterable right to do so. At any rate the latest riot affords an interesting contrast to the manner and subject of student riots in America. The undergraduates of Spain engage in fisticuffs with the officers of the same army which ended Rivera's dictatorship because they are delighted in the return of Monarchy. The younger generation in the United States confines its outbursts mostly to matters academic which have aroused their wrath. Be it faculty infringement on their privileges, the removal...
...Only occasionally is the complaint directed against questions on the ground that they are too general. The English 72 examination reprinted in part elsewhere on this page affords a striking example of this last type of examination. There is nothing petty in any of the required questions. All are manifest attempts to allow the student to tell what he knows about the five poets studied in the course...
...militancy of the church was manifest when watchful Papal gendarmes caught Giuseppe de Palois with the goods and the whalebone, announced him to the world as the first thief arrested in the new Papal State (TIME...
...become the entertainment of the spectators whereas in any sound system of education the primary object of athletics must be the health, the pleasure and the discipline of the athlete himself. In that distinction lies the clue to the whole problem which now perplexes all those who discuss the manifest evils of commercialism, overemphasis, professionalism, ballyhoo and vulgarity in intercollegiate athletics...
...Pattison, and also for his children's concerts. He first studied the piano in Boston, and later in Berlin with Arthur Schnabel. His style is dynamic, eager, and spiritual, his tone brilliant and scintillating. He is one of the few living pianists whose sense of humor is frequently manifest in his playing. For the past season he has been in charge of the teaching of piano at the University School of Music at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in addition to giving about 50 joint recitals with Mr. Pattison...