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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That element which packs lecture Lalls to the doors and which changes the function of aisles from that of pathways to that of seating space is what has been called, for want of a better term, the ability for great teaching. Where it is jacking one has courses attended by students whose attitude is complacent, uninterested and guided by other lights than the bright flame of intellectual curiosity. Where it is found there also one may find men to whom books are more than, required texts: men who have come together, almost in the ancient Greek manner, in order that...
...Vodvil term, not deprecatory, meaning dancer...
...Shank, "friend of the poor people," to be Mayor of Indianapolis. The next year he became nationally known by hawking potatoes, geese, onions, eggs, tomatoes and cheeses from the steps of his city hall in an effort to break a commission merchants' trust. A street car strike ended his term prematurely, the carmen refusing to promise they would strike no more while he was mayor. He had threatened to resign if they failed to promise and he made the threat good...
...Yards of gold braid will probably fool the police into letting it go as polite comedy. Four Walls, believes the hero (who is a product of East Side puddles), do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage. He is a unique gangster, in that even a prison term cannot shake him from his smoky torch of philosophy. When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder," he stoically awaits her vengeance and marches off with the detective, scornful of a freedom that might...
...courage of the alumni, shaken as it must have been by the misfortune of last May. Graduates who hung their heads when it was announced that Harvard was unrepresented in the original training group of ten, and later that a Princeton "baby star" had been signed for a long term contract by the magnates of the Coast, will rejoice to learn that Harvard has not one, but many, luminaries...