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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statistics are a very useful Institution. If one is in possession of the right statistics he can prove almost anything. Some of the latest significant figures have been brought to light in Prussia where it is shown that out of more than a thousand schools 136 are named for the Hohenzolierns, 12 for Schiller, 10 for Goethe Hindenburg and Bismarck and only two for Martin Luther. This is indeed an important revelation and one which should do much to throw light on world affairs. It clearly demonstrates in the first place that a Hohenzollerns revival is immanent or that there...
...Beauty in Distress, or some other such all embracing symbol. And Genevieve Tobin is not much good at symbolism. She is too much herself. It may be true that any women try to be all things to all men, but it takes no more than a Genevieve to prove that some of them fail...
...daily with the reality that materialism is on the way to becoming a Frankenstein, devouring its own products anti destroying its newly created benefits. Left to its own sphere commercialism, which is merely a scornful name for business sagacity, is a genuine contribution to the progress of man; to prove it one has only to compare office methods of today with those of a quarter of a century ago. But commercialism ceases to be a blessing when it enters other fields besides its own; art, religion, education; in short, the general tenor of life, should be closed to its influence...
...Texas laws for homicide are lenient, providing only that in a plea of self-defense the defendant shall prove that his decision to "get there first" was reasonable. "... it makes no difference whether, in fact, real danger exists. . . ." Commenting upon the Pastor's successful charge of prejudice, Texan expatriates drawled: "Texas must sure have changed, if people down there now entertain prejudice against murder...
...business of the drama to prove anything," declared Kenneth Macgowan '11 in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "The drama should provide a release for the audience from the cares and drudgery of every-day life...