Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JAPAN FROM WITHIN?J. Ingram Bryan-Stokes ($4.50). In a cold, factual, scholastic way, Dr. Bryan has given an admirable summary of the present conditions of Japan; and, by including historical background, he has clearly presented the remarkable progress made by that country. In a word, he makes the reader understand Japan but not the Japanese...
Other colleges, said the Cambridge despatch, "were conspicuous by their absence" in this vote. Equally conspicuous, thought the most generous reader, were certain facts omitted in the despatch: What "scholars and scientists" voted? Who won in Astronomy and German, the other two first places open? What was meant by "excellence of teaching"−method, personnel, equipment? How were the voters instructed? What weight did individual reputations bear in such a vote? What weight person- alities, tradition, foreign esteem...
Thoroughness is a virtue that has never been sufficiently extolled. The cursory reader of even this daily pays the penalty for his cursory perusal by an imperfect knowledge of the facts in the case. Not that we are by any manner of means apologizing for the incident. On the contrary, we relished it thoroughly. From the unfortunates who were victimized we exacted poetic justice. A journalistic Nemesis overtook those who read the headlines and run. Princetonian...
...home and abroad), Legal Cruelty (English courts), Universal Uncles (radiorators), A Rest Cure (English billiards), Graven Images (Madame Tussaud's famed waxworks), Royal and Antient (droll golf talk), The Springs of Laughter (Musical comedy). The vein employed is gentle satire of patent absurdities. Manners are mildly abused; the reader mildly amused. The soundings of the shallow end remain about as charted...
...amazed man of Jericho went on to peruse a letter appended to the Graphic editorial, in which a presumed Graphic reader, one L. A. Wilson, besought the Graphic to "take the lead in criticizing the scare headlines in some papers which use such low-down tactics," referred to "the recent but harmless tremor of the earth," arraigned the News for flaunting on its front page a picture of what might have happened ito this city in a serious earthquake," prophesied that such tactics "mean ruin in the end for a paper belching forth such rot," stated of the News that...