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...this estimate be correct, M. Poincaré's new bloc (composed of Republicans of varying hue) is safe; for what every lazy French voter wants is security, religious peace, reparations, administrative reform and economy, and those things are what the Premier is striving to give them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Election Trend | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...this widely accepted hypothesis is correct, it can cause no surprise that the development of character in America is placed before the training of intelligence, and that the converse is true in France. For a representative of either civilization to attempt to do anything more than call attention to the existence of a difference in thought and issue an appeal for tolerance and understanding on both sides seems futile. But while the adjectives "stupid" and "unmoral" will doubtless still be hurled by extreme supporters of each ideal, their numbers will not be large enough to make mutual appreciation impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTELLIGENCE VS. CHARACTER | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...advance the mechanical technique of staging plays. A race of dramatists is even more necessary. If the prediction to Halcott Glover that by a rebirth of idealism drama will be swung from its morbid tendency to realism and attain its true "place in human and international under standing" is correct, it would seem that the first signs of a dramatic revival ought to appear in the work of college and universities; for seeds of idealism find but scant nourishment along. Broadway Should Princeton's new theatre inspire talented dramatists as well as train actors and expert stage managers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STILL THE THING | 5/3/1924 | See Source »

...quite absent from the mechanical sameness of the machine. But such artists would not be the despair of their section-men; their writing is legible as well as beautiful. To the instructor who has the misfortune to have some dozens of reports of these to correct, the typewriter if he can persuade his students to use it proves an unqualified blessing. And the instructor's gratitude for finding a read able production cannot fail to reach perhaps unconsciously to the advantage of the sagacious author. Altogether, there seems to be no inconsiderable basis for the well-known advertisement "Typewrite your...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MECHANICAL--AND DAMNED | 5/3/1924 | See Source »

...Rochester to confer with representatives of the Eastman Kodak Company about a new camer which he is having constructed. The popularity of the Silhouetteograph has been such as to warrant continued experimentation by Mr. Fradd, and a general installation of this camera, especially in colleges, where the problem of correct posture is common, may be expected in the near future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRADD'S POSTURE METHODS EARN MUCH COMMENDATION | 5/2/1924 | See Source »

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