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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colleges and schools at the present time frequently obtain dramatic directors who know no more about the art than the students themselves. What is worse, there is a tendency in college dramatic courses, where they exist, to call acting 'self expression'. This it most certainly is not. The one and most important task of the actor is to make himself a perfect instrument through which to express the character and feelings of others...
...percentages of Freshmen falling into the A, B, C, and D classifications of posture are respectively four per cent, 36 per cent, 45 per cent, and 15 per cent. All men failing to obtain a grade above D are automatically placed in a class for special corrective exercises, conducted by N. W. Fradd...
...sugegsts, is to have, among one's fellow undergraduates, a considerable position and prestige; to be an editor of a college "daily" is to acquire not only this, but also (possibly) a certain amount of monetary assistance; but to be the editor of a mere "Lit" is to obtain neither. Moreover (Mr. Bailey feels) to be an editor of a mere "Lit" is, ipso facto, to inherit a thankless task. He suggests that nobody wants such a magazine; that in its pure form it cannot be self-supporting; and that therefore in the nature of things, it must...
...Obtain from the nearest post office an application blank...
...legal recognition and a patrimony, sale of The President's Daughter at $5 per copy was said to be for the benefit of the Elizabeth Ann Guild Inc an organization to better the lot "of illegitimates. The latter part of the book related Miss Britton's futile efforts to obtain a settlement from the Harding estate or relatives. She had been touring in Europe she said on money he had given her after his election to the Presidency. She hurried home and was astonished to find that he had made no provision in his will for Elizabeth Ann Christian...