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...Nineteenth Century", "as freshmen at my College rather two English secondary school boys than four Colonials or fourteen Americans. . . ." Review" asks of a defender of the Americans, "His it ever occurred to his that with the control over the Union, their influence over a section of the Press and their secondary in the social clubs, the Americans will soon assimilate Oxford?' while another remarks that "Instead of a culture peculiarly English, Oxford" (with the admission of Americans unlimited) "will develop into the cosmopolitanism characteristic of the transatlantic liner...
...Baldwin '05 will speak on "The Miners' Struggle in West Virginia". Mr. Baldwin has been secretary of the St. Louis Civic League and has also been prominent in connection with the National Association of Social Workers. He has long been active in the interests of freedom of speech and press with regard to international and industrial problems, and has recently been devoting his entire time to this cause as Director of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...seen her in the two previous productions, she was again Mlle. Sorel, the Doucet-costumed, the brilliant technician, the vivid personality, yea, even "the magnificent", but not the sincere worker in the art of portraying character. One begins to suspect, in fact, that Mademoiselle has a very clever press agent...
...Guest, who has worked for 27 years on the Detroit Free Press, explained that there is nevertheless constant danger that a man may get into a rut in newspaper work, and cited his own experience as an example. "After I had been on a reporter's job for 15 years I found myself up against a brick wall, for I was getting nowhere," he declared. "That was why I began writing verse and why I am now enjoying what I have to do because it is creative. Although journalism affords the best training in the world for the man just...
Today the show at Cambridge closes with the Bear-baiting for which the audience is always expectant. Advance press agents have written of famous cases in the past where the Bear has run amuck and clawed the boys in the front row. They have also promised that today's Bear is unusually ferocious and his claws unusually sharp. Still the audience is curious and, suppressing all fears, is anxious to see the show out. And there will be plenty of applause to welcome the Bear...