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...tendencies of thought in the student body at the University. We have been constantly reminded of the ecumenical wave of "radicalism" that is sweeping the undergraduate off his intellectual feet. We have heard with deadening conviction the results of the diagnosis of students' marks. We have almost recoiled in despair at the revival of the old question of social distinctions, and the intolerant, glib exegesis that has naturally followed. Our guilty conscience has not been due to any secret lamentation and outward enthusiasm for such signs, but rather to the feeling that our fathers may have sufficiently detached themselves from...
...there are Lovaina's girls. They are young tadies of many parts--waitresses ostensibly but only occasionally--but we supose that they too are things of the past. But they must have been charming when they had their day. Indeed they we so charming that Livonia gave up in despair the attempt to bring them up in the way they should go. "I tell you, I give up truyin ave those girl," confides Lovaina to the author, "I think they like ruin best. I turn my back--they ruin...
...Allison in "Extravagance" a not too original story of an extravagant wife who is the despair of her fond husband leads the bill at the Modern and Beacon this week. Barold Lloyd as usual entertains this time in "Number Please" not quite so hilarious however as his last picture. The bill concludes with "Out of the Chorus" a conventional story given new life by the performance of Alice Brady in the leading role...
...Verdun is told will its defender be remembered as one of the great generals of the war; his defense of the city was not merely a strategic victory in itself--it shattered the German morale, and brought relief and encouragement to the forces of the Allies fighting against despair and doubt...
...great. The course to be followed should be not so much a matter of principle between a new organization and the existing one with reservations as of the conditions which will be met with in the pursuance of either course. Practical friends of the League, however, should not despair but should be disposed to accept either plan according as the one or the other seems most likely of success...