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...Professor Baker's decision had been rendered, an after-thought crept into the minds of some students that they were fitted for just such work as was customary in the Workshop, and that they were being deprived of their inalienable rights, etc., etc. The press thus performed the veritable function of stirring up impulses and inciting efforts, strivings, and in short verve...
Herbert Bayard Swope, vigorous Executive Editor of The New York World, contended the opposite: that printing crime news is a legitimate part of a newspaper's function, that it arouses communities to fight crime, serving as a definite check on evil doing. "Expression," he affirmed, "can never be so bad as suppression...
...relieve the College of its half-assumed burden of vocational training--that is the true function of the Business School in the University, as it has been of the Law School, the Medical School, the Dental School, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The hierarchy of the American educational system is gradually crystallizing; and with wise guidance Harvard College is assuming its own and proper place in that order. It is now free to pursue the high ideal of teaching men "how to live". To Williams and all the other colleges who are still straddling the path...
Leekley started the game yesterday at the forward berth where he played best, on last year's Freshman outfit. Rauh returned to the center job he held last year, and Jones was used as an alternate at forward. This combination failed to function in the first period, while Baldwin and Slocum, the 1928 forward pair, ran riot through the Crimson defense. In the second period, Coach Wachter's quintet, with the best passing attack it has shown so far this season, staged a remarkable comeback, overwhelming the Freshmen. Leekley tallied nine goals from the floor in this period...
Last November, a Conservative Ministry was elected in Britain. The Experts' Plan began to function. The whole Continental situation started to improve. European countries floated loans in the U. S., began to draw on the proceeds. British capital in the U. S. began to flow home. The pound sterling pricked up its ears, shook itself and began a sensational climb from about $4.40 to its newest high point last week of $4.79½-7⅛ points...