Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boys from boarding school go to college as a matter of course. It is the natural and supposedly necessary thing for the son of rich parents...
...thing, education is not a geographically transferable commodity, like food-stuffs or the Federal Reserve. Whether for good or bad, it remains in one place, and rows about itself a decorative ivy of cultural tradition, bedded and nourished in the soil in which it stands; so that one hears the expression, "a southern education", "a New England education", applied to the educational heritage of particular regions of the country...
...first act, "Clubs Are Trumps", the new comedy at the Copley Theatre came to life in the later stages of the game, and was able to end up with a safe, but slender, margin of success. The authors, Leslie Bickson and W. Lee Dickson, failed to show any- thing like championship form until they had run up a big handicap against themselves...
Captain Blood. Sabatini, it seems, is God's gift to the silent drama. He is a glutton for Romance, leading the present field of doublet-and-hose designers by several hundred thousand copies. He is so good at this sort of thing that his yarns must inevitably make sturdy cinema matter. Captain Blood is another pirate argosy. A young Irish physician embroils himself with King James and is sold into slavery to a West Indian planter. While pirates are looting the town, he leads a sortie of slaves, out-pirates the pirates, and sails away to become a buccaneer...
...expounded aims and ideals in terms occasionally selected with an eye to arresting the world's attention as well as shedding light and inspiration upon undergraduate audiences. At Hanover, N. H., Dartmouth College, now 154 years of age, opened with the announcement that compulsory chapel attendance was a thing of the past; with the annual sophomore-freshman football rush; with words from President Ernest M. Hopkins: "I would seriously submit for undergraduate consideration the question whether, from the point of view of their own ultimate good, there has not been a too complete disappearance, from the college curriculum...