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This report, covering the multitudinous activities of the society, indicates several tendencies, the most significant of which is the decrease of interest in social service work. It is questionable whether, as the report states, athletes are responsible for this condition; athletics, although a convenient sinner, cannot bear the brunt of every failure. Undergraduate sentiment is a more likely cause...
With the zeal typical of a converted sinner Chiang threw himself into active fighting in the cause of the great Dr. Sun Yatsen, late "Father of the Chinese Republic." Dr. Sun was at this time experiencing reverses, having been driven from Canton, his capital, by his own War Minister. Soon Chiang Kai-shek with 10,000 men had materially assisted in driving the traitor War Minister out of Canton, and back to his walled stronghold Waichow, a city deemed impregnable...
Chiang led the attack. Nine thousand one hundred of his ten thousand men were killed; but he captured Waichow. Strangely he did not lose but rather gained prestige after this prodigious but chery of his own troops, for he had himself fought in the thick of it. The reformed sinner, now a mighty hero, retired after his vic tory to a Buddhist temple for three months, a vacation period of medi tation which he has several times since repeated. The year 1922 found him in Moscow, acting as military liason officer for Dr. Sun, who had despaired by then...
...perusal of this list of fines, the causal student of early Harvardian might assume that fiscal punishment was the only kind meted out to the unruly undergraduate. This was not the case, however, as evidently from the following law the President and Tutors were allowed to chastise the sinner...
...Sinner. Since marriage is a state of conflict, the theatres make much of it. Thompson Buchanan presents his version of the cosmic combat in a comedy, the title of which is derived by nicking the heroine's name, Cynthia. It appears that the young lady likes her man without matrimony. An unfortunately discovered roadhouse dalliance leads to her being forced to accept him with the conventional wedding ring. In Act II, emerges the conflict between business and wife-petting. Husband (Allan Dine-hart) woos his Mexican oil wells. Wife (Claiborne Foster) languishes in the company of an artist friend...