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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nieces and her husband, on the day before the recent Italo-Papal Treaty, Concordat and Financial Agreement was signed (TIME, Feb. 18). Such was the iron efficacy of Dictator Benito Mussolini's censorship that the Italian press had not yet printed a single word of what was to occur. None the less the Pontiff's niece, like everyone else, had heard rumors, and she asked...
Hearts in Dixie. First of several Negro cinemas scheduled for imminent release, this picture has only one white actor in its cast-Richard Carlyle, who plays a doctor. Spirituals, nicely sung, occur, as advertised, 30 times in the hour and ten minutes Hearts in Dixie takes to run. The voodoo doings, the cotton pickings and Bible-shoutings are just what a certain class of people, educated to consider Negro life "colorful" and "primitive" expect of the race, just as people of another class expect vaudeville patter and tap-dancing. The pathos, based upon the low temperature of the ground enclosing...
Greater efficiency in the management of student affairs might occur with the inception of this experienced direction. Were it not that extra-curricular activities exist for other ends beside the mere accomplishment of office routine, the plan would have no apparent flaw. But the function and benefits of these undergraduate activities are so essentially divorced from the idea of formal instruction that any move to bring the two nearer together very much resembles an encroachment. Far more ultimate good is to be had from the self-teaching and individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention...
...anyone arrested by the police and pro nounced guilty by the Minister of the Interior, General Martinez Anido. of "speaking in a public place against the government, the Crown, or the interests of the Nation;" 2) To suppress any society or club upon whose premises such speaking may occur; 3) To dismiss any employe of the State deemed hostile to the government...
Harvard University stands on a cultural soil three centuries deep. People elsewhere are scandalized at the repeated explosions which detonate the political and intellectual life of New England. Does it occur to them that such explosions may be vastly to the credit of a community? Does it occur to them that the deeper scandal may be absence of such explosions? --The Boston Globe...