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...Junior Varsity crew has been making good progress, according to Coach Whiteside. Only two members of last year's unusually good boat were lost by graduation, the stroke and number 4. The chief element of uncertainty is caused by the impossibility of knowing which oarsmen will be promoted to the Varsity. That question will not be settled definitely for a month...
Self-sufficient Hope Williams is called upon to insert the Park Avenue element into the proceedings. As in The New Yorkers, in which she was also associated with uncouth Mr. Durante, she does not have much to do except feed him a few lines. Lively Lupe Velez, having abandoned most of the Mexican accent she affected in Ziegfeld's Hot-Cha, spends most of her time shaking herself at Funnyman Durante, which calls forth from him the bitter remark: "Now they're makin' me a juvenile...
Based on the principle, "Seeing is Understanding," the Seminar has as its object arriving at a fair estimate of actual conditions in Russia, so often tempered by propaganda and personal prejudice. Russia has been chosen as the material for study because of its probable effect as a new element on civilization. Dana said, "It is the most important thing in the world today that Russia and America should understand each other...
...West criticize, and in any case is very imprudent and uncalled for. The Tribune's editorial was a bit extreme, but did not call for an outburst of criticism, directed against the Mid-West, more violent than weighty. It seems to me that you should not insult that element of the student body which gives Harvard its national fame. If Harvard were merely a local Massachusetts institution, there would be no one to carry its policies and traditions to the rest of the country...
...official name, was evolved by capable, burly Ruth Faison Shaw at her experimental school for British & U. S. children in Rome. Her primary interest was more therapeutic than artistic. She wanted to give her pupils the simplest and most direct method of self-expression to avoid the element of fear induced by tools that the child feels incapable of mastering. Spreading paint with the bare hands was an obvious idea but ordinary paints have obvious disadvantages. Fingerpaints, Miss Shaw's own invention, are made with harmless earth, pigments and a cold-creamy substance, all of which washes instantly...