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...event gave rise to a prodigious amount of comment upon French finance...
Black Oxen. The wave of comment blown up by Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's novel washed it immediately into the movies. To play it, Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle were summoned. They managed to do some rather effective acting in a moderately uninteresting play. The plot, of course, discusses the rejuvenation of Mme. Zattiany and her absorbing effect on Lee Clavering, newspaper columnist...
...Boots. In these columns last week was a comment to the effect that Mary Jane McKane was the captain of the current musical troupe. This statement is hereby withdrawn. Kid Boots deposes Mary Jane; furthermore it numbers only Sally and Good Morning Dearie among its competitors in general excellence for five years past...
...shift in the Crimson front, with which Coach Winsor experimented in the Tech game, consists of Beals and Hodder exchanging places. The change has aroused some comment in sport circles, and is popularly explained by Beals frequent failure to score under opportune conditions. Supporters of this view point out that in Harvard's scheme the wing is the scoring position, and explain that it was only Beals' unusual ability that kept him in the first string when apparently ineffective at his post by the right boards. This theory loses force, however, when it is remembered that Hodder, the new right...
While not pretending to decide either question, it may be permitted to comment upon them. As regards prohibition, one may with some confidence expect the college vote to favor "more vigorous enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment" rather than modification or repeal. For contrary to newspaper editorials and periodic sudden squalls on the part of reformers, the majority of college students, like the majority of the nation, are unwaveringly dry. More interesting will be the revelation of how strong the minority is in college and how strong the minority of Atlantic Coast states is in the nation...