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...brotherhood of letters and community of culture knows no boundaries which restrict intercourse. Differences there are between nations in all things. But it is established among civilized peoples that these differences are meant to delight and inspire rather than to repel the scholar or the scientist. From foreign contacts, moreover, native students bring back new notions applicable, usually, to the educational system of their own country, sometimes to other features of its life also. The current ideas afloat in our colleges, the tutorial system, the division into college units, and freedom from minor restrictions common in early American institutions...
...results of the second Intercollegiate Short Story Contest conducted by Harper's Magazine reiterate the lesson taught by the first: young and ambitious authors are likely to be much more successful if they write about something with which they have had some personal contact and concerning which they are at least adequately informed. This, being a literary truism, needs a practical demonstration, such as this contest and others similar, to prove its soundness. Where the rub comes is the editorial insistence on college stories...
Apparently it is never possible to drive through the skull of the average undergraduate the fact-that what he does is in a large measure responsible for the opinion of Columbia which his intimates and those with whom he comes in contact form. The connection seems too distant and abstract for him to realize...
...First National movie school at Burbank, California. Those who prove themselves valuable will be given five-year contracts with the film corporation with a salary of $75 a week for the first six months, which will be gradually increased so that during the last year of the contact they will each be receiving at least $750 a week...
...life of us boys, he was a very real companion." Charles Kingsley was a kinsman, and "the first person to give me the idea that religion made men efficient." His clinical work in a London Hospital, graphically described, stirred searching questions which cut deep into his life. Accidental contact with D. L. Moody, "down a dark street in Shadwell on my way from a maternity case", proved a turning point, rooting in him the ideal that "loyalty to a living Leader was religion, and that nightly service in the humblest life was the expression...