Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place the Class of 1931 is a new class: new things are different and therefore by perfect syllogistic deduction the Class of 1931 is different. There is a second opportunity to confound the blase by pointing out the fact that hope springs eternal in the human breast. Together these principles should satisfactorily establish the unique splendor of the incoming Freshman group in Harvard College. This once assumed and secure in its own virginity the Class may safely prepare to ascend the heighths. The trail is not too rocky, its slopes not too steep but what it is surmountable...
Women Go on Forever. Since melodrama is what the public wants, Playwright Daniel N. Rub-in? will give it to them. He lops off a side of Mrs. Daisy Bowman's (Mary Boland) boarding house, where rents are low and hard to collect, to reveal a perfect spawn of loves and murders. Three rooms give on the sitting-room of this squalid pension, each of which by itself is a cell of drama. Many more embryo plots sneak in through the front door, the back door, down the stairway, or just happen in the alleyway outside. They tangle themselves into...
Good News makes a rattling good musical show out of the ways of Joe College as known to perfect strangers. You see him bursting into sorority houses, hornswoggling the Frosh out of his allowance, necking the co-eds on the steps of the lecture hall. All the joy has fled the campus of dear old Tait, according to the plot, because the star halfback, Tom Marlowe (John Price Jones), has flunked his astronomy just before the opening chorus, two days prior to the intercollegiate crisis with Colton. The heroine, Connie Lane (Mary Law-lor), tutors him for a make...
...bore us with FASHION. Aside a few scientific periodicals, TIME is the only one worth reading. Leave it perfect...
...Army War College opened last week at Washington; 89 officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps reported to perfect their skill through this post-graduate work. Said Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, Chief of Staff...