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Miss Taunton, when contacted last night in Newport, R.L., could not deny that she had contracted this fall to write for a College undergraduate a 60-page thesis on the topic: "The role of Michael Bakunin in the Russian Revolutionary Movement of the Nineteenth Century"; that she had met with the undergraduate in Widener and given him a preliminary bibliography and 20 pages of typed book-notes on the subject; and that she had accepted for these services $7--approximately one-third of the $20 total cost of the thesis. Like Miss Taunton's business letters, the bibliography and notes...
...plot itself is lucid. In late nineteenth century Paris a general, his wife, the Countess, and her admirer affably intrigue. A pair of diamond earrings, which precipitates every crisis among them, exchanges hands constantly. Each gentleman strives to impress the Countess, either by giving them to her or by taking them away, until the earrings themselves come to symbolize her love...
...unions in the United States negotiating a mutually satisfactory settlement with the managers of one of the most powerful industrial empires in the United States, and this without any overtones of class warfare or any appeal by either side to public emotionalism, belongs to a society which the mid-nineteenth-century socialist theorists did not conceive. The British election proved that socialism has lost its momentum in Britain. The Ford settlement proved that labor and industry are working out a new social system in the United States...
From my readings about her at the time I well remember what Mark Twain had said, namely, "Napoleon and Helen Keller were the most interesting personalities of the nineteenth century." At the end of the first third of our century I'll go even further than Mark Twain and say that no living personality is as interesting and unique as Helen Keller. I'm wondering whether in all history there has been any woman as unique and interesting an Helen Keller...
...time of the faculty vote the Committee had explained it felt "the Ph.D., as a creation of the nineteenth century does not historically have a true claim to the Latin tongue." The motion was then approved along with other recommendations for simplifying the wording on the diplomas. These other motions, which eliminated the "special fields" from the degree and increased the number of possible concentration "subjects" will go into effect this spring...