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...economic theory. He may find stern, simple dishes in the fields of science and engineering, or he may delight a delicate fastidiousness with the nicer arts of music, painting, and sculpture. But the physically famished, the Philistine who suffers only from an empty belly, will find vain the search for sustenance of a similarly satisfying and pleasing nature. True, he may pick up here and there bits of dubious desirability, such as even the darkest age would have been ashamed to feed its intellectual beggars, but where, oh where, shall he turn for the dainty side dish, the morsel done...
...Missing Link (Syd Chaplin). Akka, agreeable chimpanzee, makes merry in this mad jungle frolic. Funnyman Syd Chaplin plays an animal-timorous poet-stowaway who is forced to impersonate a big-game Nimrod in the search for the missing link...
...along this same general trend that Mr. Aswell continues to work--this time in search of a remedy for melancholia. And, if he reaches a conclusion which although more intelligent is essentially no more correct than that of most of his predecessors it is not because he does not understand his material. Where he fails--in explaining "student suicide"--and there will be those who will deny that he has failed --is in his segregating a student from the general classification of youth. Education, however profound, however inspiring, can never hope to cope with the vagaries of the adolescent mind...
Most of the country's first class distance men have been approached in the search for runners to race the Swedish school teacher. Ritola and Theobald were among the first invited...
...opportunity for Harvard undergraduates to prove themselves able and capable motion picture actors comes today between 11 and 12 o'clock when representatives of First National Pictures studios, conducting a nation-wide search for college men with screen personalities, will visit the Freshman Gymnasium. At this time preliminary interviews and photographic tests will be conducted...