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...Eisenstein to Mexico where he had in mind an ambitious work to interpret the history, character and appearance of the Mexican people. When Eisenstein finished shooting his Que Viva Mexico! he sent it to Upton Sinclair, went back to Russia. U. S. directors, working with high-salaried actors, cannot afford to use much more film than they plan to have in the finished picture. Russian directors, particularly Eisenstein, are much more likely to choose casts of completely untrained actors, like the Mexican peons whom Eisenstein hired at laborers' pay. They can then afford to use film extravagantly. Assembling...
...their case the arrangement would be more than a social amenity. It would afford them practical openings to view their prospective residences more or less from the inside, and thus to make their final choice of House with a clearer eye than that of mere prejudice and untimely bias. A Freshman inter-House eating prerogative would moreover give much encouragement to friendships between upperclassmen and first-year men, which could be of essential benefit, but which are scarcely flourishing at the present. Certainly, under the wide aegis of the House Plan, the dinner table has come to be a focus...
...east of Florida lies that editorial goldmine known as the Cuban Situation. Ever since Theodore Roosevelt, Cabot Lodge, and the forces of American journalism won the island for us, it has presented a really pleasant problem, one which was colorful enough to make good copy, and small enough to afford a thrill without a menace. Before and after the turn of the century a rousing fight centered about the question of Imperialism, Dollar Diplomacy, and such, lapsing into obscurity only for a time, as the economic conquest of the sugar resources was completed and as we turned our eyes...
...higher priced rooms should be reduced to rates that will attract men who can afford them and who are now outside the House Plan because of the savings they make in rents...
...course this calculation represents an arbitrary adjustment, furnished as an example. Schedule X, or any other schedule of equal amount, could be put through without raising all prices $5 at the outset if the University could afford a decrease of $8800 in its revenues. Incidentally it is gratifying to know that the interest charges to which the House rents contribute will be reduced when