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As a result, creative drama is seriously threatened. Driven from Europe by the war, it can be preserved only by aiding, rather than sabotaging, such experimental theatrical organizations as the Dramatic Club represents--a fact which short-sighted union officials have failed to grasp. Even had the Club met the...
Advocates of world union must thank Lord Halifax for clarifying an important issue. They now know what they have to fight. No one of them, surely, ever expected to draw up a simple "paper plan" and put it into practice as easily as you would change your summer oil. Fundamental...
Passengers on the motorship Challenger (American South African Line), which arrived last week in Boston from Capetown, told how, in mid-Atlantic near the Equator, they were surprised to see land planes flying about, many hundreds of miles from any land. Presently the watchers sighted a British aircraft carrier and...
The question thus became, not "Who got there first?" but "Did anybody get there at all?" Perhaps neither Cook nor Peary first saw the North Pole: perhaps it was first sighted, from the relatively cozy cabin of an airplane, by Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett in 1926.
I feel that it is very unfortunate to imply that young men who have the convictions of the American Independence League as expressed in CRIMSON editorials are short-sighted or cowardly. Such use of epithets puts us almost back to the days when even sauerkraut must be called" liberty cabbage...