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...seems to me that what the student needs is not "to see life clearly, and to see it whole", but to see a certain element in life which no end of college training will if unaided fail to give him. i. e. worthwhileness. The only possible cause of suicide for the sane human being is that values have lost their meaning for him. When his mental acuteness is being sharpened in the process of education, he becomes gradually more conscious with his increasing introspective powers, of his own failure to grasp any significance in life which will make it seem...
...personality," Mis Natacha Rambova, former wife of Rudolph Valentino and now the star of the mystery play "The Triple Cross" at the New Park Theatre, told a Crimson reporter yesterday before the matinee. "In the field of art one must adapt his or her environment to the personal element. I have experimented with artistic designing, dancing, the cinema, and the stage in order to see which would be the best medium for expressing my individuality. It is an interesting quest but has no definite destination. At last, however, I can safely say that I have succumbed to the fascination...
...scale is very often of doubtful value. On too many occasions it is given by second and third raters in the faculty or younger then whose interest lies elsewhere. There is a certain taudriness, a back-yards atmosphere. It is particularly noticeable that the vocational rather than the cultural element is emphasized. That is all very well for the vocational school but it is hardly consistent for the arts college...
Governor Blaine talked on Nov. 3, 1926. President Frank set a watch at the door of his mouth until Jan. 1927 when Governor Blaine was no longer Governor and was on his way to Florida, then he spoke words of learned length and thunderous sound. What element does that disclose in President Frank's character...
...only does Hubbard's article defeat its own avowed purpose, but the manner of its doing aggravates the public spectacle element in intercollegiate football and particularly in Princeton-Harvard football. If Hubbard had anything to say, and wanted to say it publicly, why did he not go to the Harvard Graduates Magazine or the Alumni Bulletin? If he wanted to clear the air between Harvard and Princeton, and settle once and for all the Princeton "dirty" football why did he not write for a Harvard-Princeton audience instead of going to a popular, sensational weekly whose circulation is largely among...