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...board of the Cornell Daily Sun starts its coming year with the illuminating statement that "through its editorial columns it will seek to interpret or comment upon current news and events of the day as well as upon questions of a more or less academic tenor, holding that mere discussion or view of a moot problem is often of as much value as taking a definitely defined position regarding its consideration or solution...
Such a safe and uninspiring position may seem desirable to the editors of the Sun, but it finds no echo at Harvard. The CRIMSON believes sincerely that its editorial columns should comment, criticize, and suggest with a free hand. With the definite exceptions of Dartmouth and Amherst, college papers on the whole tend to be the screen for faculty opinion. The college office sanctions every new policy and the paper lies meekly down in its tracks...
...Dunce Boy. There was much anticipatory comment about this latest play by Lula Vollmer. She was the author of the glowing Sun-Up and the successful, if not so glowing Shame Woman. The locale of her plays is the Southern mountains, her people the mountaineers. Their dialect is liquid, their passions primitive. She came from that country to Man- hattan, got a job selling tickets for the Theatre Guild. Then Sun-Up. Quite contrary to the custom, it must be said that Miss Vollmer broke badly with The Dunce...
...Book Reviews" and the Theatre and Art comment in the Advocate's "Dial" number march under the same umbrella of solemnity that covers the originals they imitate, but with this difference--the elf of the comic spirit is calmly wagging his ears over each...
...Moines, Iowa, April 11.--Segregation of all crime news on an inside page by the Des Moines Register, a morning paper, during the last week has been an interesting experiment for the comment it has caused from newspaper writers and the public alike, but the actual result of such a policy cannot be determined yet, editors decided in a staff meeting held tonight for the purpose of discussing the test...