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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blue books periodically scattered before an unappreciative student body by the College are not valueless even though they remain unfilled. If was discovered by a perusal of the current Treasurer's Report. The annual expenditure for these embryouie manuscripts totals in the College proper $1,262.53. The cost per volume and the ratio of book usage per scholar could not be ascertained although the inquiring agent was assured that the student whose inroads would earn him the title of a dollar-a-year man is rare...
Good taste and a proper sense of proportion are not to be expected in newspapers of this type. But when they repeatedly stoop to such methods of attracting attention, and advertise indecent tales of their own concoetion as being typical of university life, they cease to deserve the confidence of the public Yale News
...that the authority of science should be to obtain a hearing for such dogmatising, yet it is unavoidable. While science was unremunerative and even hazardous, few but the truly scientific minds were attracted to its pursuit. Working patiently and slowly, and confining their theorizing to the field of science proper, where theories must stand up to every devisable proof, these great scientists discovered many fundamental laws of physics and chemistry, from which flowed the immense mechanical progress of our own times. Quite incidentally to their pursuit of truth, they enriched the world materially to an immense extent; and even more...
...sets for Variety), acted chiefly by Conrad Veidt (another German importation). The tale goes back to early medievalism in England where political irregularity was punished in a most horrible manner. Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt), whose noble father had displeased King James II, was turned over to a gypsy band for proper punishment: a facial mutilation which leaves him with a perpetual and ghastly grin. In a travelling circus, Gwynplaine finds employment as a clown; he winces and tears muddy his eyes when thousands crowd around him and go into hysterical laughter. One girl, Dea (Mary Philbin), loves him and does...
Fine touches like this lift the rest of the company into proper importance. Peggy Wood Plays Portia with a humor--in the Elizabethan sense--that erases the memory of wooden Shakespearean heroines. And she is not Junoesque. Bassanio's suit was somehow less plausible for the youth of his friend Antonio; the lines of both were carefully read. Shock-headed and slant-eyed Rummey Brent gave nonchalance to Launcelot Gobbo, and little more can be done with...