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...story underlying the Reinhardt tradition is no doubt touching. The picture of the poor, friendless boy calling his own name at his own lighted window is one to be perpetuated by generations of Harvard men. To be sure, Harvard may be too indifferent to its wealth of traditions. But the average senior prefers sleep to an overindulgence in any custom whatsoever. If Reinhardt were put to bed at ten P. M. every night there are few who would miss...
...University of Michigan, in a speech of welcome discussed the desire of the American college student for freedom to think for himself. "The English student has intellectual freedom, and in this branch of life is considered a man, while in matters of conduct he is considered a boy and is curtailed by rigid rules. The American student must attend classes and take examinations and is considered a boy in this phase of college life; but he is treated as a man in matters of conduct. The problem ... is whether the student is to be considered a man and given...
...Robespierre was shot by a boy named Merda. The evidence supporting this statement is conclusive...
...Boy of Mine. Behind this ghastly title, there lurks a film of gold. It is another of Booth Tarkington's yarns of youth. He has somehow managed to preserve his peculiar humorous charm in strips of celluloid. Ben Alexander makes the various boyhood adventures pathetic, amusing, sincere...
...wars have their endings, they have also their beginnings. The Great War brought Mr. Rathom more publicity, not all of it of a desirable character, however. He began an exposure of the German spy system in the U. S., of the activities of Ambassador Dumba and attaché Boy-Ed, partly in his papers, partly in speeches and partly in a series of articles in The World's Work, which, it is said, were stopped abruptly because some of his disclosures were proved fictitious. In the inquiry which followed, he modified some of his statements and retracted others...