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...Morgantown, W. Va., Jessie Jolliffe decided to commit suicide. He paid all his bills, then called on an undertaker, asked the price of a funeral. The undertaker told him. Jessie Jolliffe objected, started a fight. Police arrested him. a judge sentenced him to six months in jail...
...Valley Stream, N. Y., George Bishop tried to commit suicide by grinding up five electric light bulbs and eating them. Doctors found he had only a slight case of indigestion. Glass Eater Bishop used to eat glass in a side show...
...with a rough and ready simplicity that makes the audience forget the screen and follow merely the actions and dialogue of the protagonists. In "Five Star Final" he brings new highs in circulation figures to his tabloid by featuring a scandal of the past which forces the survivors to commit suicide rather than have their shame ruin a daughter's marriage...
...strait-jacket a highly intelligent school student is to commit a crime against education: to allow his liberty of study, (not to be confused with freedom from work), is to placate the gods of Wisdom and Learning. It is not hard to see which of the two courses of action Yale should pursue. --Yale Daily News
...axiomatic that university study is valuable not so much for the actual book learning, but for the training in thinking. In devoting so much time to social and physical recreation, American students too often commit sins of omission in regard to study. Their French contemporaries are more apt to commit sins of commission in attempting to master an overwhelming mass of information. One university course abroad includes thirty French authors and twelve ancient authors, with a knowledge of the complete works of three. The attempt to cover so much material encourages mechanical learning of facts far more than original thought...