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...earliest days, when a picture showing action, mere movements of a man walking, was novel enough to succeed. The pictures of today, most of them, are in story and development hardly more advanced than the early cowboy and Indian stories, where the only difference in plots all of a pattern, the prairie schooner, the attack by Indians, and the rescue by the cowboys and by soldiers from the fort.--was the change in costume worn by the principals. Plots of today are inane and get nowhere; but how the censorship can help raise the level is difficult...
...closing, he pointed out that there is no such thing as absolute liberty. The individual and the nation are bound by their duties to each other. He spoke of the Constitution of the United States as a pattern for the League of Nations, and urged that America with her wealth of possibilities do her share in settling the problems of the world...
...covered arcade is one of the most salient features of the proposed Library. Its floor will be of stone and marble, forming a simple and attractive pattern which is repeated in the brick and stone vaulting of its roof, supported by columns having specially designed capitals with animals heads grotesques, and other ornaments...
...present-day passion for whole-sale analysis the undergraduate is serving his turn. The "what" and "why" of everything the college man does is sifted, weighed and from it are deduced generalizations to fit a pattern rather than an individual. Those of us who are occupied in the pursuit of parchment letters to add to our names are all lumped together--by a writer in the "Transcript" as "that painful figure--the college boy." The same philosopher concludes his dissertation by advising us that the sooner we accept with "strong humility" Thackeray's dictum that at twenty...
Both of these quotations express the conviction that the interests of the Brooks House might well serve as a model by which to pattern the programs for moral and religious education even in the universities of countries quite unlike America. But more important than the acceptance, of Brooks House as a practical working model of program and organization, more important by far, is the acceptance of the spirit of Brooks House as the ideal toward which the social and religious interests of the students of these countries should be directed: It is thus that the idealism of mutual service...