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...pain and heart-searching to the conscientious college man. It might drive him to despair. It might induce him to abandon his hypocrisy and leave college. Fortunately, it will do none of these things, for the simple reason that the college man is, or should be, busy enough and sane enough to have no time for such speculations. If he reflects upon his own attitude toward his work, he passes it off with the thought that his attitude at the end of college is going to be more important to him than his undergraduate attitude. And he would be wise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIS NOT TO REASON WHY | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

This will mean the end of cataracts of abusive editorials and magazine articles directed at the traditionally and puritanically sane Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Now is the opportune time for the honorable members of the legislature to take a bow. Their efforts at driving away the overhanging clouds of Watch and Wardism and general Comstocking will not go unrewarded by universal shouts of acclamation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT OF THE DAWN | 2/23/1929 | See Source »

...definitely better and more flexible arrangement of course requirements is expressed in the adoption of a new nomenclature and altered demands by the English Department. Like the History Department, it has renumbered its basic courses upon a somewhat more sane system than the usual football-signal confusion, an advantage so evident that it is strange not to find it carried through in other departments, especially those of literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STILL HANGING ON | 2/23/1929 | See Source »

...tranquil and confident that recent events have been greatly exaggerated abroad. On the eve of the season most essential to Monaco's prosperity, Prince Louis calls the people of Monaco, in the name of and by the affection they hold for their country to an appreciation of their sane and essential duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONACO: Polignac v. Mon | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Three Cheers. It is possible to be sane and to think that Will Rogers is not funny. There were moments in Three Cheers when he was being a little too much of a big brother to Dorothy Stone, for whose father, Fred, he had been persuaded to substitute; and there were other moments when he was too self-consciously ingenuous and stammering. Yet, as usual, his gags were good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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