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...Sherwood admits in his preface that there is something wrong with the movies, but that there is also a great deal that is good in them; and it is with the latter element that his book deals. For those desiring a more comprehensive and a more permanent record of American "movies" than can be found in the current photo-play magazines, "The Best Moving Pictures" forms a handbook and a book of reference entirely without rival in its field...
...signature of an alleged alumnus whose name does not appear in the Alumni Directory. This letter, quite apart from the apparent hoax of its authorship, would not have been given space in any reputable publication edited by full-grown men, for its contents were insulting to a considerable element in our citizenship...
...democratic element is not totally eliminated only because of a remarkable development of student selfhelp. Guided from a national headquarters at Dresden, cooperative stores, student kitchens, employment bureaus are operated. And there are loan banks to which all who can contribute, and from which the most gifted students, regardless of social status, receive money without interest during the months before their final exams. John R. Mott, through the World's Student Christian Federation, has been largely instrumental in the success of these self-help activities. The Society of Friends (American Quakers) have cooperated...
...chemical distinction between atoms is governed by the number of charges in the nucleus, which is the same as the number of electrons in its system. Hydrogen, the lightest known element, has one charge and one electron, like the earth and moon...
...fascinating to speculate on the possibility of union between the Liberals and the Laborites. Macdonald as Prime Minister with Asquith a peer and on the Woolsack and Lloyd-George Chancellor of the Exchequer pledged to carry out the principle of a capital levy, has all the elements of romance and perhaps just a slender element of possibility. At any rate Mr. Lloyd-George is more concerned in attacking the Conservatives as a "scratch crew of third rate mariners whose sole qualification for their post is that they are also mutineers" than in maligning those who may soon be his bedfellows...