Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan Opera House. The Manhattan Opera House, last week, had the distinction of presenting two artists who give place to none in the position they hold in the eyes of the public. First came Anna Pavlowa, for a "farewell season." The instrument of her return was a ballet based on Cervantes' Don Quixote, Mme. Pavlowa taking the dual role of the Barcelona innkeeper's daughter and Dulcinea del Toboso. When she made her initial entrance among more than 80 other performers, she was at once recognized; and the Manhattan audience shook with enthusiastic applause for five minutes...
Northwestern?In Candidate Dawes' home town of Evanston, Ill., the campus seemed devoid of Democrats, as reflected in the columns of The Daily Northwestern. LaFollette and Wheeler had their cohorts none the less...
...when the moderate leaders of Japan, the nation which came off third in the Washington Naval agreement, are seeking by every means to allay Oriental distrust of America's naval ambitions, it is unfortunate that the chief executive should feel obliged to boast of a "naval rank, second to none". Japan's sensibilities, deeply outraged by the immigration insult, will store up the needless affront. Japanese pride, made anxious by the stabilization of naval ratios at 5-5-3, will not be allayed by this new demonstration, for it will not be perceived that...
...activities. In its strict sense leadership in studies is a misnomer. A man may stand at the head of the Rank List, but if he hides his light under a bushel, devoting his whole time to himself, he leads no one. However great his ability, the pure scholar spares none of it to the common good, and in consequence is not honored by his classmates...
...easy for a man who wishes to loaf to take the "grind" for the prototype of scholarship. He does this as a sop to his conscience so that he may say: "I will none of it." But the general student body is not deceived. The "grind" is recognized for what he is. So too is the student who, while maintaining his high scholarship, gives part of himself to his fellows in active leadership. No honor is thought too great...