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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...through educational and intellectual intercourse, between the Scandinavian countries and the United States. It has already accomplished much in producing a better mutual understanding between our own country and Norway, Sweden and Denmark. It is well that Harvard is taking an active part in this work which will bring us into closer contact with the countries of northern Europe...
...will be worth while having a few dozen members of Columbia's faculty dismissed in disgrace for holding subversive principles if the rest of us can know at a moment's notice what we ought to think and believe. New York...
...these days of national uncertainty and nervous anxiety we crave antidotes of any kind to relieve us from the thought of overshadowing responsibilities. The "movie" number of the Lampoon bursts upon Cambridge today and presents unrestricted sensationalism that has ever aroused undergraduate enthusiasm. All the country's celebrities with whom our gilded youth are most intimately acquainted are described and portrayed in the bold and naked phrases of Lampy's best style. The abandon that characterizes this detailed exposure of the cinematograph world convinces the reader of the utter unreality of that film land of wonders...
...have all longed to know the life stories of our screen favorites, their ideals, their triumphs, and their sorrows. The dramatic pages of the daily papers have given us personal interviews with "Flary Flickford," "Clara Bara" and "Valeska Sewerat," but all such articles seem to suppress the essentials we cry for. At last the barriers are down, Lampy has made the flickering screen transparent, and our curiosity is entirely satisfied...
First, that when writers give us such detailed information as to the character and clientele of these resorts as Mr. La Farge has done, they tell us how they got it. I should be most reluctant to believe that Mr. La Farge's serious and enlightening criticism was based on hearsay...