Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enormously popular Hall-Mills murder trial in Somerville, N. J., a syndicate press service last week introduced a reportorial method more intrusive than ever. It employed Fannie Hurst, smart Semite novelist of the "gusher" type with a working knowledge of popular psychoanalysis, to observe Mrs. Hall, widow and alleged destroyer of a faithless clergyman, a stolid-seeming woman whose expressionless demeanor upon the witness stand was baffling the sharpest gimlets in the press gallery...
...book is dedicated to W. B. Donham '98, Dean of the Business School, who in a short preface states that the completion of the dormitories has relieved the difficult situation by making possible a high type of social contact among the students. The book, appearing early in the year, will promote friendships during the rest of the college season. The association of names, the recognition of clubs and fraternities will aid considerably in maintaining a permanent record of the classes and class organizations. The volume, bound in red leather, contains the usual group and individual pictures, articles on the Business...
...merit. Others may not like us, in fact he says, "Columbus, I suppose, was one of the few foreigners who were agreeably surprised when they discovered America". But foreigners are a luxury which we may, if it he necessary, omit. And so are the continental ex-patriates a type to which Mr. Boyd devotes the major part of his article...
...endure it weather the storm amiably enough, probably never realizing their utter contemptibility. Likewise is the case with that popular being--the moron. "A moron in Europe is just a moron; to America he is something more." To be exact he is a movement, a symbol, a danger, a type he is anything but an individual. This tendency of Americans to make shibboleths of casual remarks of foreigners and men without countries is responsible, thinks Mr. Boyd, for the inferiority complex which we are now suffering. Nor will ruminating on the subject make us less inferior...
...there are at least five magazines who make a business of culling their material from the files of university and college publications all over the nation would appear to prove that college with is also American win. The scope of Humor is sufficiently broad to include more than one type. If the younger generation is guiding the older through the maze of comedy it is doing it in a finished if unconventional manner...