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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americanism" carried to impossible limits. As it is, the plot pretends at no more than do the plots of countless other pieces which seek chiefly to divert through situations, humor and music. It affords the usual opportunity for the hero to fall in love with the heroine at first sight,, to love her through several acts and scenes in the face of paternal opposition, and to receive the expected "bless you my children" at the end; it affords appropriate chances for such customary jokes as "Don't look, dear, the gears are stripped", and a few others of somewhat higher...
...there seems to be a rift in the lute of the administration's peace. Something has gone wrong, certainly, when two such widely divergent policies can be brought to light within the same twenty-four hours. President Harding may have been more strongly affected than he know by the sight of the coffins on the pier; or the Senate may have suddenly become over-enthusiastic in its efforts. Whatever it was, administrative co-ordination apparently does not work at long-distance range...
...college;" said our interpreter. And sure enough, as we rounded the shoulder of a low hill, we caught sight of a group of buildings in the distance before us, standing on high ground, surrounded by a high wall, and silhouetted against the sky. As we drew nearer, we could see signs of what the buildings had suffered, during the Turkish bombardment, when the French held the college as a fortress. The north wall of one building had a place as large as a room blown out of it. On another building the windows met, because the intervening wall had been...
...undergraduates must be free to take part in those phases of college life which are not included in the curriculum. The charge that the scientific mind is usually self-centered is not altogether without foundation; absorbed in his experiments, the student of the natural philosophy too often loses sight of the world around him. It should be possible to place the student in the science group upon a par with his classmates...
...fairly prosperous in the commodities that are of value in undergraduate life. This group might be called that of the "tired college boy." It is an unfortunate fact that in the spirit of restlessness that prevails in this community, many of these "t. c. b."'s lose sight of the educational advantages that surround them; they become business men, tired business men, even before they are out of college. They are paving their way to worldly success, but are they preparing for a life that will be of value of them and to the community in which they live after...