Word: partings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...community expenses and public enterprises must be paid for by some one. It is generally recognized that all routine and special public undertakings are intended to be of benefit to some part of the public; therefore each member of the public should contribute, on some basis, toward payment. But the assessor, under the law, asks, not--"How much have you benefited?", but "How much can you afford to pay?" This is a policy which we would not tolerate in our private affairs: and it is not strange that the application of that policy to us in our tax-paying relation...
...further stated that he was heartily in favor of putting the sport on a firm basis, and that the only thing necessary to carry this out was a vote of the Student Council. The interest in boxing which these facts indicate would justify some definite action on the part of the Council. With minor sports becoming more and, more popular, the addition of boxing to their number would certainly be a constructive move...
...carefully attained sense of value, is very finely done. Miss Hill and Miss Crocker, in the leading feminine roles, have little acting to do, but do it gracefully. Mr. Jackson and Mr. Joyce portray satisfactorily the spineless characters they represent; Mr. Meyer is more successful, in a more positive part...
...Administration cannot help being a large factor in the success of the project, particularly from the point of view of Harvard students; for with the directors of the school working in mutual understanding with the college authorities, every opportunity should be afforded to Harvard men wishing to take part in the work...
...better movies are on the current bill at the University Theatre this week. Ann Harding, in "Her Private Affair", shows how infinitely superior the better stage actresses are to the average movie-trained chit, and completely carries off a difficult part to the satisfaction of this reviewer's not lenient taste...