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Almost every school or college has some sort of "honor system." In some it is a living thing which the students cherish and preserve by strict self-discipline. In many, however, it is an outworn symbol of the "romantic" period of the late nineteenth century, greatly stressed by headmasters in their talks to parents and alumni, and largely a joke among those who are presumed to practice and revere it. Recently a good many institutions have seen fit to abandon the scheme, confessing that modern youth is too matter-of-fact, if not too cynical, to be persuaded...
...revival of an ancient and outworn custom had been a motive, the same result might have been reached without a dais by lengthening the chair and table legs a couple of inches, and wearing pattens. In such case, the CRIMSON's strictures would have been justified, and the suspicion that Harvard democracy consists chiefly in affability toward properly accredited persons...
...produced on the twentieth anniversary of the unsuccessful Russian revolution of 1905. "Ten Days That Shook the World," released in 1927, commemorated the successful revolt of 1917. His latest picture is "Old and New," a production dealing with the agricultural problems of Russia, and contrasting the new and the outworn methods of agriculture of his country. At present he is en route to Hollywood, where he is under contract to Paramount...
...Council" instead of the heart warming and personal "President" or "Secretary"? And the future Junior Class presidents have a now duty now, the annual announcement that their class will follow precedent and not have a Junior Prom. After all, the class officers are gracious adornments, symbols perhaps of an outworn tradition, but nevertheless, the front pages of the Senior Album...
Practically all of the world's great composers had, at one time or other, patrons who provided their material support in order that genius might flourish unhampered. The custom is now outworn but last week in San Francisco a semblance of it reappeared when heirs of the late Jacob and Rosa Stern, wealthy Jews, established a fund whereby Jewish Com- poser Ernest Bloch will be endowed for the next ten years at the rate of $5,000 a year. Composer Bloch is regarded by many as the greatest U. S. composer.* Yet his livelihood has had to come largely...