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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breast of the producer before they decided to leave this title in its place. It didn't seem to suggest bootlegging, seduction, happiness or any of the few inevitables for which people are supposed to go to cinema. Leave it he did, however, and thereby displayed rare good sense. For the picture, based upon the poem, is a sincere and sensitive document. It depicts the long sea exile of the man who said: "Damn the United States." It is an illustration of one of the sagas of U. S. history, and it deserves a place in everyone...
...none of those features of the Honor System which appear exaggerated and unnatural to many students. We would like to mention among these possible changes, the elimination of the rule that examination papers may not be written upon, and the gradual relaxation of officious vigilance which is in rare cases objectionable...
Many Eastern countries declared that the drug danger was existent only in the Occident, and particularly in the U. S.; that use of opium in the Orient is wide, its abuse rare...
...college competitions with drudgery. In its demand for contact with the trend of events, it is as helpful and stimulating as any college course. It is certainly as valuable as a course in composition for the man who is inclined to carelessness in his writing. Then it gives the rare opportunity of self-expression. The training which a candidate receives is suited primarily to help him perfect his own style. Men who make the editorial board are eligible for the position of editorial chairman, one which allows them to play an unusually strong part in the moulding and interpreting...
...humiliation. Not so Horthy. Morning, noon and night, breakfast and dinner found him bedecked as an admiral. If he went shooting in the Royal Forest near Gödöllö, his uniform was with him; he took it off when he went to bed and upon the rare occasions when he played tennis. And, as if a uniformed Admiral of a non-existent Navy were not ridiculous enough, he took to riding a white horse, a grotesque proceeding for an Admiral which earned him well-merited derision...