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...Syracuse department of journalism takes occasion to bewail the unrestrained policies of college dailies in a special feature article appearing in the Daily Orange of the New York institution, pointing out that "youngsters (on college newspapers) act impulsively and are sometimes carried away by exhuberance without bothering to dip into facts" in their treatment of news. He seems to feel that the more mature slant of professional newspaper folk is all that is saving the journalistic reputation of the country, and he infers "intelligent guidance" is necessary in the regulation of college newspaper policies...
...during July and August I am at my summer camps on lovely Lake Annecy in the French Alps. The morning sun sloping warm across the snow crowned peaks glows on the brown, naked bodies of our little campers soaping down before their morning dip. But provincial France sees shame and immorality in the unclothed bodies of 10-year-old lads plunging into a blue lake. My nearest neighbors, a mile away, have sent gendarmes and I am hailed before a shocked justice of the peace who places an eternal interdiction on such obscene practice. Henceforth our boys "must...
When they were a howling irresponsible minority, the House Democrats evidenced a willingness to dip into the Federal till for anything and anybody. Now that they are in the saddle and conscientiously building up a record to exhibit to the electorate in November, these same politicians have become more and more careful and cautious...
...separate the derivative responsible for the stench, he might have something interesting. Fifteen years later he succeeded: By use of a more highly concentrated mixture he produced a liquid which he called divinylacetylene. Father Nieuwland shook his head, decided it might be good for drying oil or possibly sheep dip...
...young to have accreted traditions as rich as the sea's, the air has evolved a few rites of its own. One is the quick dip of salute by a plane in flight, another the wing-wag of greeting, another the ring-laying ceremony for a new dirigible (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929). Picturesque is still another -the christening of a new balloon with liquid air. As in the case of the Graf Zeppelin and many smaller craft, it was planned that the Navy's great Akron should be named to the accompaniment of a flask smashed against...