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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Directors seem to want not only to please the public, but to educate them to the cheap things. We have reached a fine state of affairs indeed, when a bunch of ignorant movie directors try to improve upon the works of the world's greatest writers and as a result drag their masterpieces down to the level of cheap comedy. Look what they did when they put my father's famous books. "Anna Karenina" and "The Cossacks", on the screen! My part in the production of these pictures was to fight for as little mutilation of the original as possible...
...service in this final game owing to scholastic difficulties has become even heavier. The University's probation rules have taken toll of one more Crimson player. Yesterday it was learned that W. L. Elkins '28, slated to take Jackson's place, would also be hors de combat. As a result, H. H. Newell '29, understudy of Joseph Morrill '29 last year, will bear the burden of turning aside the Yale shots...
...followed the principle of self-determination as far as possible. In the desire to weaken the defeated central powers and to strengthen the smaller or newly-created succession states considerations of strategy, of communications and of geography were allowed to play into the settlement of the frontiers, with the result that since the war there have been more submerged minorities and more irredentas than before. Add to this the fact that these minorities have become nationally more and more conscious and there should be no difficulty in understanding the seriousness of the question at the present...
...under present conditions in Mexico. With elections usually only a mockery of free balloting, the party in power cannot be ousted save by military force, and in the past whenever enough of the army could be induced to desert and there was suillicient popular discontent this has been the result...
After much secret and uncertain picking up and putting down, Herbert Hoover fitted ten pegs into ten holes and finally made up his Cabinet. It had been a brain-bullying task and the result, somehow, failed to produce the striking design of supermen and specialists which Mr. Hoover-and the U. S.-had hoped for last November. He had had a surplus of little pegs that would have fallen through the holes, whereas big pegs of individual shapes refused to fit in, even when pushed. But a survey of his handiwork at least brought the new President the consoling knowledge...