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...pleased. Then the storm broke. Artists of many kinds who had gone to Santa Fe to make the old city their home, residents who had been attracted by its ancient beauty, rose in protest. "What will happen to our fine old town," they asked, "if you bring here a transient population half as large as that we now have?" This was not an isolated cry such as now and then rises in other towns. It was a tempest which echoed through the town's newspapers and received not little press support. Only to those who live in Santa...
...from the just balance, the true proportion here as they are in other questions of social benefit. One can but remind that the minutiae of no one or even several subjects should be allowed to obscure a complete and philosophical out took; that memory work should never consist of transient facts and should never outrun the capacity and training aimed at their utilization. The student should not be competled to stack his has in too overflowing forks-full...
Small men with momentary reforms and transient fancies arise to enjoy brief hours upon the stage of public favor. President Eliot for years has been the sage and sufficient reference for such little men. Like some wiser leader of an often flippant people he has continued the just and mellow sage whose words are never hollow, ever filled with wisdom and purpose. The CRIMSON extends to President Eliot sincerest good wishes on this, his ninety-second birthday...
...proverb. "Those on whom the gods smile die young" can never blight athletic fortune, for the smiles of gods of sport are much too transient. Nevertheless, even their passing favor is pleasant. And the University may well seize the moment to observe the recent successes of its teams...
...moment of entrance. Actually this is not quite true, for a great many of our current movies can be divided into integral parts without any appreciable loss of interest. It is the producer's job to bring his story to a climax and at the same time allow the transient audience to catch on all the way along the line. D. W. Griffith is quite sound in his belief that this hap-hazzard method of presentation hampers the artistic advance of motion pictures immeasurably...