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This Constitution does, however, in spite of the fallacies which to the observer appear sufficiently perilous to condone its partial rejection, serve as a test case for the whole theory of student government. Heretofore in most colleges the Student Council has been a pretty toy, an honorary roll of prominent undergraduates, the efficiency of which is subjugated to its glory. If adopted at Princeton and enforced with the rigidity which in its present form it seems to demand, the system will cease to be only symbolical of student cooperation and will be in reality a vital factor in the daily...
...defeated because the opposition called him a sexagenarian; but this, I take it, is exceptional. The idea of children by choice instead of chance has made so much headway that its antagonists are now on the defensive, as one may judge from their reactions. Instead of fainting spells and partial paralysis, the term causes the adrenals to work overtime; people rage and imagine vain things...
Soon the pious Abbé and the impetuous atheist felt the cold, im partial rigor of the Code Napoleon. Each was severely reprimanded, each was fined eleven francs...
...Greene of Vermont: "As I was walking with my wife on Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, on Feb. 15, 1924, a Prohibition agent shot me in the forehead. He was aiming at a fleeing bootlegger. For weeks I lay in bed, half-dead, half-alive. Finally I recovered, except for a partial paralysis which makes me limp. At the time of my accident, on motion of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Congress voted me $7,500 for medical expenses. Last week it became known that I had returned the $7,500 to the Government. Said I: 'It would be improper...
...would live, love and be irresponsible, somehow hold the screen version together in an amusing roll-and-tumble that is neither slapstick nor brilliant comedy. That Pirandello's satirical quibbles of intangibility should have been considered for picturization is even more astounding than the film's partial success...