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...usual during the season when football monopolizes the sports columns, the editors of the rest of the paper find every bit of information about colleges particularly appetizing. In this vicinity especially, the front pages went quite berserk over the meat furnished by yesterday's Carnegie Foundation report. To be sure, the columnists and editorial writers generally concurred in the what-of-it attitude merited by much of this report of conditions prevalent months or years ago; but the treatment as news is, after all, what makes the impression of the story, and even conservative papers badly exaggerated its significance...
...game was played last week of pretending that British Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was sending out from London invitations to the great naval powers. He received the Quaker-Scotch text from Washington, dutifully had four fair copies made, despatched them to Washington, Paris, Rome, Tokyo. A further bit of mummery was to delay publication of the U. S. State Department's "acceptance" until a few hours after Scot MacDonald left Washington (see above...
...must have been an extraordinarily fine horse because this is only the second time I have ever ridden and I am not a bit stiff or lame." This was the day after she had cantered beside Mrs. Hoover in the Blue Ridge mountains...
...greater percentage of the American show-going public college life in one long, gloriffed vacation according to an editorial in the Daily Northwestern Movies like "College Love" and "The, Collegians" provide people with the most distorted idea of a student's career. Novels such as "Fraternity Row" do their bit to add to these impressions. Even the well-meaning "College Humor" gives a one-sided picture...
...Boston censors are peculiar; they banned our play, and let 'Volpone', in Zweig's version of Ben Jonson's rare bit, run merrily on when the Guild presented it here last spring. I don't see that 'Strange Interlude' is as bad for public consumption as 'Volpone'. Perhaps Ben Jonson's bad taste is classic, while Eugene O'Neill's is--well, the Boston censors have their opinion, it seems...