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...answer is probably to be found in the unique character of college life. The conception of an existence at once free from financial responsibility and separated from family ties is far from generally the case in any college; yet there is sufficient element of truth to give it a glamor that sets it apart from the more usual way of living. It follows that the same interest in the unfamiliar and mysterious that gives the tabloids their circulation will, when applied to another field, produce equally distorted results. The stenographer who devours the latest love-nest scandal and the matron...
...fact that there was no final determination of Germany's reparation liabilities, has left an element of uncertainty in the plan itself, and in the affairs of all countries concerned in reparations. It has become increasingly clear that a final settlement of the problem to be achieved by mutual agreement would be in the best interests of the creditor powers and Germany alike. The new experts committee is to draw up proposals for a complete and final settlement of the Reparations problem and is thus expressly empowered by the governments concerned to consider the fundamental problem still remaining...
...Theatre Guild has made mistakes in selecting plays, but as long as Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, the busiest and perhaps the best Manhattan mimes, have anything to do with it, it will possess an element of perfection. These two made their reputation with the Guild, and they married each other after meeting during the rehearsals of Clarence, nine years ago. Alfred Lunt went to college in Waukesha, Wis. His wife's name is Lynn Lily Louise Lunt. The Street Wolf is a young agent provocateur whose looks lure not-unwilling chippies to a Greenwich Village brothel. It goes...
...week. The significant trends and the plans of each manufacturer have been widely published and the most obscure potential purchaser is well supplied with abundant information. There is one factor, however, that is interesting on several scores for its absence rather than for its appearance, and that is the element of economy. Miles per gallon claims, so recently the source of heated rivalries, have become as unfashionable as four-cylindered engines or high-pressure tires, and are ignored by the great bulk of advertisers...
...school he purchased a 350-acre farm where a $500,000 building will stand. A similar sum will be given for endowment. The purpose of the school: frankly to emphasize the religious element in education...