Word: upton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aspect of this system of education must be very unpalatable to Mr. Upton Sinclair. The Russian faculties and students are carefully kept in the goose-step, and any who would molt into swans or ducks are ungently and forcefully removed from their positions. The subtle manipulation of financial pressure which Mr. Sinclair finds everywhere in America, is replaced by the action of bayonets. The new generation in Russia may learn all the physics, engineering, and mathematics that it can these are not dangerous. But political economy, government, history, are all painstakingly censored, even more than natural history in Nebraska...
...wonder what Mr. Upton Sinclair who so scathingly attacks American colleges and universities on the charge that they are controlled by ultra-conservative financiers who want only "accepted", doctrines taught and who smack not at all of the liberalism and broad-mindedness needed by leaders of our education,--we wonder what Mr. Upton Sinclair will do when he hears that Mr. Howard Eliott '81 has been chosen as the new president of the Board of Overseers at Harvard? No doubt he will clap his hands and shout from the house-tops: "I told you it was so! Here...
...Eliott in his new position. In spite of the cautious and reactionary attitude toward education of his "big business" world, the CRIMSON hopes that Mr. Eliott will always be found on the side of liberalism when troublesome educational problems are to be decided. May he prove Mr. Upton Sinclair wrong...
...eviction of Imogene marks a serious break in theatrical tradition. Heretofore chorus girls, particularly Follies girls, were supposed to get themselves into the newspapers. Newspapers or separation papers?it all came to the same thing. The public reads and runs to the box office. Witness Countess Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner who can neither act nor sing nor dance. Simply by her extraordinary endurance and ability to keep on getting married and keep on getting in the newspapers she keeps on getting star's situations in expensive musical revues...
Sued for Separation. Gosta Morner, 26, Swedish Count, President of a toothpaste plant in Chicago, by Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, 30, on grounds of nonsupport. Morner denied the charge, asserted that she married him for his title. Said she: "I didn't give a damn for his title. If I wanted one, I could have been a princess or something...