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...film version of La Garçone French novel by Victor Margueritte that earned its author's expulsion from the Legion of Honor for presenting " a false and slanderous picture of modern French womanhood," was completed, complained against, viewed by the police and found above reproach. It is now charged that the objectionable scenes were secretly filmed and will be interpolated in copies of the film destined for South America and Germany. The Paris press urges detection of these scenes by customs officials and their suppression as "very harmful propaganda against France...
...issued a statement, which included, among other things, the following sentence: "The tendency during the last few years to disregard the restrictions of ordinary courtesy, the common ownership of public property, and the privileges of citizenship has of late grown to such proportions as to be not only a reproach to the University and a danger to the community, but an influence that is possessed of almost unlimited possibilities for harm...
England. More than 500 clergymen of the Church of England, including many canons, have pledged their support to the Labor Party. For a long time the Church has felt keenly the reproach that the working classes were being alienated from it because they found no friends among the clergy. A congratulatory address was sent to Ramsey Macdonald and the Labor M. P.'s which said : " We shall support actively in whatever ways are open to us the effort you will assuredly make for the spiritual and economic emancipation of the people...
Other institutions, less in the world's eye, cherish their idols without fear of comment or reproach. Generations of Annapolis men have worshipped the famous "Tecumseh, god of the passing mark," while the destinies of Amherst are shaped by that elusive goddess, the "Fair Sabrina," who appears to mortal eyes at yearly intervals. At Harvard, there is no god except the Subway rotunda, but since this is not generally known, it has given the "American" few headline thrills...
...Columbia ought to be regarded as a happy taken of the increase of spirituality in our universities. It would be a mistake to think of it as a concession to the spirit of materialism, to which these mighty stadium-cathedrals are being erected all over the country. This reproach can be leveled at other great men of football, perhaps; and it any one of them had come here we might perhaps be justified in saying that for all Columbia's great graduate and professional schools, for all its fifty or a hundred thousand Summer and extension-sion students, its executives...