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...movies are wrong sometimes. Even the Riviera has its more staid, moral and conservative element. It seems that the younger generation of France had read Rousseau and had taken his teachings to heart. In the cool of the afternoon they were wont to bathe on the Riviera beach clad only as God made them...
...clipping from "The Socialist" coming at this late date, appears rather superfluous, but to your editorial on Military and Naval Science I take violent exception. Your pacifism is well calculated to please conservative professors of Social Ethics and the staid dowagers of Back Ray, but it is strictly not in accord with your manifestation of being liberal. A college, liberal in the finer sense, should include and encourage as many diversified subjects as its students will support. That militarism is not academic is true but neither is publishing a daily news paper for amusement and financial profit...
...Bible. Vanities, saith the preacher, my Vanity of Vanities is now showing in Boston. Speaking as a man of God, Earl Carroll deplored the rigid censorship of his nigh Eve like girls as they appeared in his musical comedy at the Shubert. He created art unappreciated by the staid Bostonian morality as voiced by City Censor Casey. Besides bare legs Mr. Carroll pleaded for more profanity on the stage of today; he wanted a revival of Flesh and the Devil...
This means you, a Dartmouth under-graduate; this means you, staid and respectable members of the faculty, this means you, townspeople of Hanover, older than three and younger than sixty. This means everyone who believes that our logic is sound and refuses to be drowned in his own sea of self consciousness...
...high well-born Gentleman Jonkheer N; Maes van Herwerden,'' handsome but conventional young blood of the staid and doughty aristocracy of Holland, had sufficient social elasticity to become engaged to an actress, but not enough to carry the engagement through the first jealous suspicion of misconduct. Jenny Heysten knew that she loved him more than the two lovers who followed, but she found solace in her genius, which flourished or failed as her emotional life varied. When Jonkheer Nico returned, however, and saw her in an ingenue part, her seeming innocence recaptured him. Once more he tried to bridge...