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...preparatory school reputation. The gain will come in the selection of men for minor places on the Board through competitions made more just by prolongation. Editorial candidates may try their hands at a greater variety of topics than has been allowed them, and the business department will be freed from the breathlessness of lining up advertisements in a limited period. Another burden is taken from the Red Book Board this year by the decision of the Dean's Office to photograph every member of the entering class. These pictures will go into the Red Book in a body...
...three years he was kept in sanatoria and insane asylums, a maniac. That was the beginning of this century. Treatment then in use was to beat and cow the inmates cruelly. Maniac Beers kept tab of the cruelties and through interest in the subject regained mental balance. He was freed. Then he wrote his famed book, A Mind that Found Itself. For 20 years it has been a gospel to social workers...
...four years he wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans. Always he pursued women, stole at a whim, strained at a bottomless tankard. And always he was freed from the dungeons (often by the services of the influential priest whom he called "my more than father"). Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile. With a farewell to his impoverished...
...shot her dead. He was allowed to act as his own lawyer in his murder trial. The trial became a disorderly farce. The jury acquitted him on the ground of temporary insanity. Committed to the asylum, Remus successfully appealed in Allen County for a writ of habeas corpus. What freed him finally last week was the Ohio Supreme Court's four-to-three decision upholding the writ...
...Yard, the cosmopolitan activities of Harvard graduates upon whom literally the sun never seis and the unanimity of whose affection for the college conveys a present admonition to the members of the class about to complete their undergraduate work. The feeling of unmixed relief that characterizes the divisional-freed Senior, the desire to be up and away as soon as possible, is metamorphosed by the turning of a year or two into an active regret for the cloister's pale, an immediate concern with the functions of the College, its activities, its winning football teams...