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...that it is immodest and lacking in grace. It is not based on a natural and harmless instinct for rhythm, but on a craving for abnormal excitement". The Dartmouth Jack-o'-Lantern: "We're a dizzy people. The shimmy proves that, without the ghost of a need for further proof". From the New York University News: "Overlooking the physiological aspects of women's clothing there is a strong moral aspect to this laxity of dress. . . . There is a minimum of clothes and a maximum of cosmetics, head-decorations, fans and jewelry. It is, indeed, an alarming situation when our twentieth...
...Stevenson case is filled with rare and amusing leaflets and pamphlets which were issued at the Davos-Platz Press, with rough woodcuts by Stevenson himself. Among the Kipling items are shown an original draft of the first two verses of the "Recessional"; proof sheets of "Kim" with corrections in the author's hand, and several other equally interesting pamphlets...
...seems to be the only interior city where there is an American college, where complete regulations and social freedom will be guaranteed to the entire population, both Christians and Moslems, by a foreign power. There is little doubt that Turkish students will take advantage of the new opportunity. A proof of the new spirit is seen in the fact that since the surrender of the Turks to the French on February 8, 1921, the Turks of Aintab have invited the Americans to take over the management of their common schools, a request without parallel in Turkey...
...December, 1919, when a decree of the Colombian Supreme Court, followed by a new petroleum code, put an end to various government owner ships and "nationalization" schemes and removed several, though not all, of the legal hindrances to the expansion of the industry by private enterprise. The best proof of this is the fact that within three days after the new code had gone into effect about eighty applications were entered for oil concessions, and during the past year about 160 British and American prospecting parties have been scouring the interior for new claims...
...comment with satisfaction on the excellence of the University Calendar, and he will not, of course, fall to congratulate the undergraduate editors on their accomplishment. In sterner mood, he will, mayhap, point out that misprints are not wholly absent, forgetting how great must have been the task of proof-reading the book. Certainly, when all else is said, he will agree that the Register is something to be owned by everyone who hopes to be an intelligent part of the College community, and will declare that the present edition fills its purpose admirably...