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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would live, love and be irresponsible, somehow hold the screen version together in an amusing roll-and-tumble that is neither slapstick nor brilliant comedy. That Pirandello's satirical quibbles of intangibility should have been considered for picturization is even more astounding than the film's partial success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1927 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Whatever success may attend this proposal, and its purpose certainly is in line with what Yale is trying to do in its way, it is obvious that we are here observing a general tendency to get away from "teaching" in the mass and towards specialized development of the individual. It is along this path, we think, that there will come the solution of the college educational problem that of late years has become so urgent a question. The graduate who looks back on his college days and who feels that the mass education of his day did not land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/19/1927 | See Source »

...University grapplers, facing teams from Williams, Tufts, M. I. T., and Brown are not conceded a very good chance of success on account of their poor record of two wins, four losses, and a tie, for the season. Of the five teams entered in the tournament, Brown is favored to carry off the title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO CRIMSON MAT TEAMS ENTER TOURNEY TONIGHT | 3/18/1927 | See Source »

...believe it! If a man is a born bore no college in the world can make him a social success. And if a Harvard man attempts to conceal the fact that he is a Harvard man from his dinner companion of the fair sex. I'm sure every undergraduate at Princeton will agree with me that modesty is not his only reason for doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

...doubts whether the idea would work "superimposed on an educational system such as ours which has previously been somewhat paternalistic." The Brown Daily Herald and The Cornell Sun edutorially refuse to predict the outcome of Harvard's plan but they are agreed upon its possibilities and hopeful for its success. There is apparently no reason why the precarious brittleness of experimental ice upon which Harvard is treading should not harden into a solider basis strong enough to support the infinite number of educational institutions which are now viewing the Cambridge adventure with awed and admiring eyes. --The Syracuse Daily Orange...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Will It Hold? | 3/16/1927 | See Source »

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