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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Musing about books for the North American Review, a reviewer bethought her of Flapdragon. Said she: ". . . . has the game gone out of fashion with seasonable snow, brown bowls of ale with roasted crabs in 'em, and night-watchmen, and the life of the great country houses. . . .? We used to play Flapdragon, I remember, as it drew to midnight, while we waited for the bells of the New Year. On the polished table in the dining-room was placed the biggest dish in the house, a crackled, oven-browned, blue-and-white Victorian with a channel and a gravy puddle...
...movement to secure uniformity in U. S. law. This Act, however, does not go farther than to provide the machinery by which both parents (or one of them) of a child born out of wedlock, are (or is) compelled to support that child. The current Columbia Law Review points out that, in the main, the rights of the child, the duties of the parents and the relations of both to the community are determined in a rather widely varying fashion by the legislative enactments of the several states. The laws of many of the states, such as Louisiana, still show...
...asking too much of human nature to expect a missionary to argue the futility of foreign missions, or to look to an English member of the Indian Civil Service to urge the cause of native independence. In the American Review of Reviews for December "A British Official" speaks true to type in defending English dominion in India. Strong upon his shoulders presses the weight of "the white man's burden" when he writes that "the people of India in the mass realize that they cannot do without English protection and rule...
...answer to such attacks Dean H. E. Stone of the University of West Virginia has written in the Educational Review that knowledge has increased to the point where too much is expected of the present generation of college men and women. He says: "The flunker, the athlete, the pampered only son, the tea hound, the college politician . . . existed when we were young and those who went to college were so few as to be 'select'." He argues that the colleges were objects of criticism in his day, but they nevertheless turned out some pretty good results...
...This review of the Christmas Lampoon was written for the Crimson by George Parker Winship '93, Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in the Library...