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...crimes and immorality have been provoked ... by imported films. I particularly resent the influence which the motion pictures are having on the thousands of college men and women in this educational center. Our students, without knowing that the pictures which the movies give of American college life are distorted, flock to these films portraying college love and then go out and try to reproduce what they see there because they think that is what the modern collegian must do to be up to date. Our vice squad tells me that it is a common practice for students who intend...
...honor, an inviolable, indissoluble sacrament between its partners. Fervently he assailed the moral laxities, the intellectual theories, which tend to demolish this ideal. Said he: ". . . As Christ's vicar upon earth and supreme shepherd and teacher we consider it our duty to raise our voice to keep the flock committed to our care from poisoned pastures. . . . For now, alas! not secretly or under cover, but openly, with all sense of shame put aside, now by word, again by writings, by theatrical productions of every kind, by romantic fiction, by amorous and frivolous novels, by cinematographs portraying in vivid scene...
Said Racketeer Diamond to a large, attentive flock of newsgatherers from the Manhattan dailies: "Newspapers create a character for you and if you don't live up to it the public thinks you're no good...
That Harvard students appreciate good reading is shown by the way in which they flock to Copey's readings. It is the Herald which fails to show due appreciation and understanding. It seems to feel that his reading can be conveyed unimpaired through the ether and that the people listening in at home can be thrilled to the same extent as those at the Union...
...Coptic verbs. He was, in point of actual fact, treated to some of the most adroitly compounded Daiquiris of his wide experience and then hustled off to the Waterfront Club in Boston, where he was able to identify a number of the more prominent of Dr. Lowell's flock, their neckties under their ears, drinking what appeared to be Crug's yellow label extra sec and dancing in a not altogether academic fashion with young ladies assuredly not discovered in the Radcliffe library...