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That there actually exists in the colleges a condition of "moral chaos" is as absurd as it is untrue. Some capable investigator ought to examine this charge against the colleges for the benefit of the general public. Among those who do not know, this will be the only way to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGIATE MORALITY | 6/16/1925 | See Source »

At Yale, a favorite topic was Alumnus Newell Martin, 75, and President Angell. Laboring under the impression that his alma mater had gratuitously urged him and his fellow Yale alumni to behave themselves at their reunions, Alumnus Martin had sat down and addressed to President Angell (via The New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pomp | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

Again our failure to see clearly is due partly to passion that blinds us often selfish, ignoble passion, impatience with those who oppose us, jealously, vindictiveness, fear, or avarice of wealth and fame. Sometimes the passion springs from better motives, a desire to help others unjustly treated, or eagerness for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL ADVOCATES CLEARNESS OF VISION | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

Tales of a Great Victorian, Conrad in a New Edition and Rolling Home fortify the reader's impression that the late captain of all seagoing novelists is thoroughly understood by his mate.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Benevolent Marbleheart* | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

Stale patterns of the kindergarten executed in raw colors by pudgy little fingers that might better have been occupied in making mud-pies; humpty-dumpty farmyard animals with four toothpicks and a chunk of modeling clay; naive nursery etchings-graphs of the thought-rhythms of potentially delinquent minds-these, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Fritz's Children | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

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