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What the suggested "cures" ignore is that college is not just a nursery of learning or an athletic playground or a social center. It is all of these, as many presidents try to prove, yearly, in their freshman addresses. The successes of college life are achieved by those who have grasped the fact had balanced their lives accordingly. school can force its men to coordinate the phases entirely; there is an ultimate cure, dependent on college and student alike, which will consist in an even balance and a healthy attitude...
...dusty playground of the Clay Public School, Philadelphia, students cheered, exhorted. "Gene Tunney" was fighting "Jack Dempsey," was carrying the fight to the champion. "Come on, Gene!" screamed pupils, "knock him out!" Encouraged, the "challenger" belabored lustily, incautiously. "Dempsey" saw an -opening, swung a haymaker...
...Famed playground for Manhattan's proudest, where charming matrons pose for Sunday supplements in shimmering white creations, white hats, white parasols, where the soughing heather of the Shinnecock Hills creeps cautiously down to the Atlantic billows...
Violent Children. The children of the strikers thoroughly enjoy the industrial situation: they get sufficient free food, they scurry to an occasional riot, they join but do not understand the Young Pioneers of America (Communist organization), they frolic at the game of "Strikers and Scabs" in the Victory Playground. This gentle pastime requires baseball bats, assorted clubs, rocks, tin cans, etc. The Strikers, with a tough 13-year-old in the role of "Hero" Albert Weisbord exhorting them to be brave, meet the Scabs or Cossacks (representing the police) in realistic Armageddon. The Strikers are always supposed...
...appeared an "elegant" Florida ad. Crested and sealed and flaunting many a name in the social register, even in the Almanack de Gotha, it heralded the establishment of the Floranada Club close to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. " . . . Background counts as much as money . . . society . . . has decided to have a new playground . . . impeccable social and financial powers" (TIME, Feb. 1). But such suggestions were not sufficient to make Floranada a financial success., Last week its backers, the American-British Improvement Corp. filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, claiming assets of $2,551,518.58, liabilities...