Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roughly it is this: "Never spoil a human being's illusions about himself or his condition. He will go mad or die." A violent controversy has arisen over the acting of Warburton Gamble in the part of the father of the house. He made him a silly "showoff" type and as such drew a perfect picture. Objectors swear that there was a deeper thrust of idealistic sincerity to the part as Ibsen wrote it. If this is your reading of the play, Mr. Gamble was exceedingly inept. Blanche Yurka, Tom Powers and a newcomer named Helen Chandler are three...
...Here we have an American college sport that as yet has no counterpart in the professional world. It is played between teams of young men of similar age and type. Its science is the cumulative experience of years of experiments. It can be coached by its own players or recently graduated players, as we found out at Yale years ago, just as well as by resident specialists if the continuity of its technique is preserved...
...consequently somewhat surprising to read the expressed opinion of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Leland Stanford, if correctly quoted in the daily prints, to the effect that Western universities are superior to Eastern universities, because Eastern universities "isolate themselves with one type of mentality...
...Eastern graduate schools must show that their students are drawn not from one state or one class of society, but from all over the world; and that this cosmopolitanism must reflect itself in the thought of any given institution. There can hardly be any such thing as a single type of mentality...
...peculiar background for a violent rise in Baldwin common on the Stock Exchange, yet just this movement occurred. The cause lay in the announcement by resident Samuel M. Vauclain that the Baldwin Locomotive Co. had perfected a new Diesel oil-burning locomotive, which would burn the cheapest type of crude oil, and effect a saving in fuel bills of from 25 to 50% over coal-burning steam locomotives. The new engine has resulted from experiments conducted by Baldwin over . The past ten years. Disclaiming stores that the new Diesel locomotive would "revolutionize the locomotive industry," Mr. Vauclain held that...