Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system of abolishing editorials in college newspapers that has recently become so popular in the western universities appeals to me as the most efficient means of stimulating the editorial column of the CRIMSON. If student opinions were substituted for the present generalizations of the editors your paper would become a truer indication of undergraduate thought: and a greater source of constructive criticism. In the final analysis, the raison d'etre of the college newspaper is to express student opinion, and the obvious way to attain the best results in this purpose is to enable the greates number of students possible...
Queen of the Night Clubs (Warner). Although Broadway night clubs have served as a locale for more pictures than any other background except the western plains, there has not been one yet in which the patrons neglected to throw confetti or paper streamers, or to rise and cheer when the hostess, with a roll of drums, tripped in. Even now when Texas Guinan, perched on a chair-back with her suckers around her, invokes an atmosphere indisputably authentic, the public is not allowed to forget that her grown son, whom she has not seen for years, will presently turn...
...seemed last week as though a mid-western cyclone had swooped upon the normally quiet campus of the University of Missouri. President Stratton Duluth Brooks stormed about "a fool trick without authorization of administrative forces." Irate alumni demanded student, even faculty expulsions. In St. Louis, Representative Robert F. Miller demanded a thorough investigation...
...technical men there is the Western Electric Company which manufactures much of the material used in the Telephone business. This is strictly a manufacturing company, controlled generally by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company--manufacturing, and producing only telephone equipment...
Each year a group of Executives from the New York office of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, representing the New York activities, the New England activities, and the Western Electric Company, visit the arger colleges, including Harvard, and spend the greater part of a week interviewing seniors who may want to go into their business. Every year a number of men do go in; the number of college men is increasing annually, and the opportunities for a definite career are becoming even more and more marked...