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History has it that Yale was founded as a protest against Harvard's liberalism. Rumor has it that even the Elis of today are a grim set of hide-bound conservatives, appearances and escapades to the contrary. Now comes fact to substantiate rumor: Yale undergraduates of the future are to be limited as far as possible to descendants of Yale graduates. Ancestry, not scholarship, is to matter...
...Good Bad Woman. When a play goes so far as to annoy The New York World into leading editorial and front page protest, it must be fairly grimy. For the World, as everyone knows, is the loud speaker of anticensorship. And yet the World says of A Good Bad Woman: "Messrs. William A. Brady and Al. Woods have dug even deeper [than David Belasco] into the pile of dramatic offal...
...various intimate scenes and the incredible flood of epithets aroused the critics' and the World's protest. They were deliberate panderings to the shoddy instincts of the masses. Unlike the similar display of Mr. Belasco (Ladies of the Evening), the scenes were never entertaining...
Although some will protest against the confinement of so vast a subject within the boundaries of a course, there will be counterbalancing advantages in aiding the tyro to cover this over fresh field in one survey. Such a course can decide nothing, it can reach no conclusions; but for those who persevere into its intricacies, it will provide, from the background of historic thought, a foundation for discussion and reflection...
...protest against motors in Venetian gondolas received added impetus recently when the Circolo Italiano gave its support to a petition addressed to Premier Mussolini. The petition reads as follows: "To his Excellency, Benito Mussolini...