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...police description looks rather spiteful. Perhaps the product of some minor minion. Almost invites retaliation. What ingratitude! . . . O tempora, o mores! . . . Back in 1920, the most befitting legend over headauarters would have been "POLICE HEADQUARTERS, a branch of the Securities Exchange Co." Witness, the police detail assigned by the 'department to help me handle the crowd of investors...
...than with all others. Many people, in judging the significance of American influence in the Philippines, believe that the movies play a large and undesirable part in the total of that influence. American pictures not only constitute 95% of all the films exhibited, but they dominate our Filipino-made product. The first movie against which I lodged a protest was a Filipino-made film which was copying American pictures and going them one better...
...Wickersham report, product of more than nineteen months of expert investigation, is a stand-off pure and simple. Whatever the endeavor, the result is a document that is all things to all men. Read one way, neither wets nor dry can extract much solace from it; read another, both can find comfort in it, the wets because nearly all of the individual opinions favor their side of the cause, and the dry because the report as a whole stands for the existing order of things...
...understand foreign manners and customs a protracted residence abroad is essential, for the merely casual intercourse with the scattered cross-sections to be found in this country results in a superficial knowledge at best. However, if the fundamental elements of improved instruction and student concentration are stressed the finished product of American Institutions would be more highly developed. There would then be less need for extraneous educational embellishments...
...Harvard Lampoon, humorous undergraduate periodical, has once again blown itself into the public eye. The initiated know that the avowed intention of the comedy therein presented is to cause sagacious wink, but the Boston and Cambridge public have frequently found occasion to look upon the product with wide-eyed horror. The present irritation was caused by a drawing in the last issue depicting the now famous scrub women engaged in staging a Bacchanalia on the proceeds of the bonus supplied by Corliss Lamont and his associates...