Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most plausible argument of the opponents of the Act regarding Motion Pictures submitted to the voters of Massachusetts, Tuesday, is the word "censorship". Why does that word at once awaken a feeling of protest? The fact is probably due to one man and one book. If John Milton, in his Areopagitica, addressed to the parliament of England, did not bring to bear every possible argument against the censorship of books, it would be difficult to find another...
...difficulties in the way of improving college conditions is the state of fux which results from the nature of the student body. A desire is felt for some change or addition, a certain amount of enthusiasm is aroused; but the machinery for change is ponderous to set in motion, and before anything results, the sponsors of the plan have gone on and been replaced by new men for whom the whole process must be repeated. Many men now in the University will never profit by the projected golf links. But that is no excuse for them to hold back their...
...students preferred not to vote, than to vote for men about whom they knew nothing. Campaign speeches were suggested each candidate to take the stump or soap-box and describe to an interested group of student listeners the principles on which he based his claim to popular support. This motion, however, was not seconded...
...very interesting; we should like to believe them, but such things have been heard before. Tesla once claimed he had invented a steam turbine one foot square that would develop one hundred and fifty horse power. An Italian gentleman residing in Boston announced that he had invented a perpetual motion machine, but a committee of government physicists showed him his error...
...Stadium to accommodate photographers, so arranged as to allow free passage through the portal, and also to afford a clear view of the field to spectators whose seats are behind them. The corner nearest the field of Section A in the wooden stands has been reserved for motion picture photographers...