Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BENDA is one of those writers who view the present state of the world with-alarm. His mildest predictions of future disaster foresee the disappearance of higher civilization from the face of the earth. His gloomier fore-boding envisage a universal war sufficiently perfect to accomplish the destruction of the human race itself. Having arrived at these conclusions he then sets out to discover the forces which make them inevitable...
Somehow, there is an awkwardness about Mr. Wescott's style which mars the effects he strives to produce. The sentences are too involved, and far too often there is a decided incoherence. One of the stories, called "Adolescence," seems in a fair way to present certain observations on that state when it is mangled beyond hope of success by the roundabout method of presentation. Another, "Wedding March" by name, comes considerably nearer to achieving...
...colleges and universities ranging in type and geographical distribution from Yale, Amherst, and Wellesley to Grinnell, Randolph-Macon, and Wabash College. The interviews are brief, honest, and each is brought in to illustrate a specific point. Through them one is able to form a nebulous idea of the state, of thought, word and deed in the average university...
...approximate time of the beginning of Mrs. Hapgood's speech is set at 1.40 o'clock and all students of the University are invited to hear her at that time. Mrs. Hapgood is the first woman candidate for the office of governor in this state. She formerly has held a position in the State Labor Department from which she was discharged following her prominence in connection with the defense in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Her husband, Powers' Hapgood '21, is also interested in the Socialist movement and together they have helped in the organization of miners in the Pennsylvania coal...
...this morning's issue the CRIMSON publishes the first of a series of articles dealing with the laws in force in the various states in regard to the absentee voter. Inspection of these laws shows that in spite of more liberal emendations of the last few years most states still disqualify those citizens who can neither register nor vote in their home district. Since for the college student both of these occasions usually come at times that make it impossible for him to fulfil this requirement, his chances of exercising his electoral rights are small if he comes from...