Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marriage Fails. Whenever a picture is called something like that, you can be sure that "society marriages" are in for a nasty beating. This time, the hero finds sincerity and love-impossible in his spendthrift blonde wife-in a slim and rather recently Italian fortune teller. She is Jacqueline Logan and that helps some...
...rests on the firm foundations of the latter. It is true that the great inventions of the age are the children of imagination, but the automobile, the flying machine, the telephone would never have come into being if the invention had not possessed, in addition to imagination, a firm, sure knowledge of the laws of mechanics, electricity and physics. In the present agitation for intellectual liberty, there is danger that the fundamentals of learning may be lost sight of. The Quadwrangler believes that colleges are not unmindful of this danger and are guarding against it. They will do well...
...spite of the well-intentioned efforts of the New York Times, however, one suspects that militant feminists will not rush to demand the degree of Spinster of arts. The Bachelor label is of approved standing, and conveys definite significance. Without it, how could women ever be sure that they had been really educated? Even with this label, some of them must have their doubts...
...part of it all is that the Times is very near the truth. Even Harvard, which prides itself as being an intellectual institution does very little thinking. All the coarse frivolities of the small college are omitted to be sure, but in their place there is a vast grey void. Harvard has no fence, no skull caps, and no Freshman riots and for that it may be justly thankful, but in abolishing these petty nuisances, it has introduced no corresponding good. Harvard would have a better right to criticize the childishness of other colleges if it had more...
Judging by newspaper accounts of it, the annual freshman riot at Yale was a great success. As institutions, a class spread, or a picnic, or a jubilee may be well enough in their way, but Yale freshmen are sure that for downright fun a good, democratic riot, with bonfires to dance around, and bottles to throw, and instructors to throw at--why there's no comparison...