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...interesting to read that Oxford a few weeks ago expailed a young undergraduate for publishing a Communist paper. Keen noses that scent danger star, as well as the instinct of self preservation, may be back of much of the disapproval with which considerable portions of the British press have greeted this drastic action. But some of the objectors take issue with Oxford on broader grounds the "Spectator". for instance, reminds its readers that true education consists in more than what President Lowell calls the process of being a sponge and a syringe. "The person who wants to learn...
...press is full of the menace to the national game of baseball from the constant buying up of "stars" by the highly capitalized, New York clubs. What is of far more real importance, is the tendency to buy up the political "stars"--the brains and ability in the national government--by private corporations...
...keeps an eye on the doings and sayings of "this giddy globe" as reported in the columns of the daily press can have failed to notice the increasing flutter and agitation caused by the extravagant, immoral ways of the younger generation. Educators, reformers, and social service workers join battle on both sides. One day it is the automobile, the next it is lack of religion, and recently the opinion has been voiced that the girl "vamp" is to blame. While every so often the country is assured that its youth is at heart wholesome, and needs only to be directed...
...innocent bystander this controversy has its amusing aspect. And yet we cannot help feeling that misinterpretation is the possible fate of any information given to the press. President Hibben might have expected this as a result of the publication of the letter which was sent to all parents of Princeton men. Perhaps the fact that the papers got hold of it during his absence from Princeton indicates that its publication was the act of a minor official...
...explore, and the precise purpose of the "fillum" is to depict, accurately and vividly, the whole panorama of American history from Columbus to the Conference. One hundred reels is the present program; and for want of more suitable direction, the work will be in charge of the University Press...