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...thus assist in strengthening the emphasis on Chinese culture which is one of the beneficial consequences of the recent nationalistic awakening among Chinese students. The work at Harvard will consist of courses in the Chinese language and literature, as well as in various aspects of Sinology studied through the medium of English or other European languages...
...Enemy. Two years ago in Manhattan, Playwright Charming Pollock offered theatre-goers a play whose purpose was to prove the too-often demonstrated assertion that War is Hell. Transposed now to the more extensive medium of the cinema, The Enemy monotonously but accurately hammers the nail of that assertion into the stout oak of the public intelligence...
...both tasks of a sufficiently loft and difficult nature. To the somewhat cynical observer, well acquainted with students and student inclinations, the chance of concrete achievement in either of these directions has seemed slight. The moulding of student thought and the furtherance of good feeling between nations through the medium of student opinion are endeavors of a vague and elusive nature; the instruments at the disposal of the Federation for the accomplishment of its ends, conventions and student councils, are far from sure or even well established...
...advantage of his credulity, gently implying the presence of a lover where no lover exists, the last fadeout shows his boots and her slippers nestling together outside the door of their room. The events leading up to the reconciliation have the glitter and charm, thinned somewhat by a mediocre medium, of the writings of Arthur Schnitzler. Even as an orchestra conductor, a profession of which one is led to suspect he understands not even the rudiments, Dandy Menjou is suave enough mentally and facially to make the street sheiks, when they leave the theatre, light their cheap cigarets with...
...favorable impression thus derived was not dispeleld by the mysterious words "Hoosic-Whisick" appearing on the cover. They are strongly suggestive of the invigorating medium "college spirit," not indeed in any narrow sense--Yale too appreciates their worth!--but in its broader and more fluid aspect...