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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place the triangle was not included, as in former years, on the League schedule, but Brown and Wesleyan were substituted instead. In the second place, the Chairman of the Princeton Speaker's Union, who had charge of the arrangements for this year (not Harvard), informed us that he had written Yale and that they were "not interested" in holding the debate, presumably because it was not included on the League schedule and would have meant extra preparation and expense. Moreover he said that the debate could not be held at Princeton before vacation because of conflicting engagements and that hence...
...following character sketch of the late Professor Sophocles, who was a famous member of the Classical Department of the University many years ago, was written in 1891 by Professor George Herbert Palmer, now Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus. It is reprinted from "The Story of Fay House," a book by Mrs. George Plerce Baker, recently published by the University Press...
Loves of Casanova (French). Cut from 17 to seven reels, colored by hand, mercilessly expurgated, these episodic reminiscences of an 18th Century confidence-man invoke a dreariness entirely foreign to the life of the central character, but occasionally relieved by witty and good-humored subtitles written in the first person. Best shot: Casanova kissing a woman's hand...
Irritated, General Manager George B. Longan of the Star in turn issued a statement. In part, he said: "The Star is not concerned over Mr. Hearst's views. . . . What we objected to was the reprinting of an article that gave the appearance of being an editorial written for the Star by Mr. Hearst. Also on account of the way in which it was used it indicated that the Star had changed its attitude on law enforcement...
...rooms of London's shimmy Soho. Father Marx could not write at home. For years he went to the British Museum reading room to work. He had talked much of force, meaning bombs and guns. Henceforth he was busy building a powder magazine of ideas. He had written: "Theory, too, becomes a physical force when it takes possession of the masses." He also observed: "There can be no talk of a real revolution in such a time as this, when general prosperity prevails...