Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifteen minute-a-day" reading courses, there is usually more or less definite disparagement by those who are devoted to the "good old days" and apparently want every man to decipher original Greek manuscripts for himself. A case in point is the making by the Yale Press of a motion picture to cover American history, from its earliest beginnings to the present. This film is labelled with the damning title of "tabloid history"; and the intellectually elite are shocked to contemplate the masses absorbing history or what not without effort or reference to authentic written texts. It is sometimes even...
...should be needless to point out that any information which can be given to the public, if it be correct and unbiased, must prove valuable in creating that background which is now conspicuous by its absence. It is equally obvious that the motion pictures have no rival for spreading any kind of propaganda; the best of the best sellers never reaches a fraction of the multitudes who see every widely-advertised "movie". And if historically accurate films are produced with the proper regard for dramatic effectiveness, as are those being prepared under the Yale authorities, they will not be shunned...
...value as a "year-book of the American screen" is further enhanced by virtue of the last two hundred pages being a true mine of information on all subjects connected with motion picture production. Mr. Sherwood has listed a Who's Who, which is in fact, a Social Register of the screen, and probably just as exclusive. He has also appended a list of moving picture publications, a glossary of movie vocabulary, and various other things of interest to moving picture fans, as well as to students of the art of the motion picture...
Graduates of the University will hold a football mass meeting for the Yale game in the Harvard Club of Boston tonight at 9 o'clock. In addition to entertainment furnished by the members of the various classes, motion, pictures will be shown of the 1923 Harvard-Princeton football game two weeks...
...procedure of the Fifth Formal Sitting of the Assembly will vary slightly from meetings heretofore in that as soon as the delegates have placed the motion in a final form, the discussion will be opened to all members of the Assembly. Folowing this discussion the delegates will vote on the motion...