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...dictator to another Josef Stalin sent last week to Josef Pilsudski an extraordinary personal gift. It comprised a bulky sheaf of time-worn documents Every one of them damned the present Dictator of Poland as a radical, conspirator, firebrand, socialist, fake-madman and terrorist. This present Dictator Stalin had carefully gathered from the files of the Imperial Russian Secret Police When he received the documents on his farm near Vilna last week Dictator Pilsudski growled gruff delight, shut himself up in his study to devour item after item...
Plodding along with a majestic pace, affording no fresh angle on such a time-worn situation, That's The Woman presents no situation which audiences cannot forecast several scenes ahead of time...
Fully realizing how similar are the time-worn yet ever valid reasons for the study of Latin, we cannot refrain from repeating a recent piece of testimony. In speaking here informally to a group of students interested in law, Dean Roscoe Pound put great emphasis on the value of Latin and Greek, together with mathematics, as discipline in exact thinking. "In languages and in mathematics two and two always make four, while in the social sciences they may make five," the Dean said in effect, adding that rigorous adherence to the "two and two make four" rule is essential...
...other hand, the Bryan University is an epitome of the religion which accepts a personal God as the author of the Bible. His creation must be regarded as literally true in every phrase. There is a wide divergence in these views. If the Bible is merely the "time-worn literature of great men" it means one thing. If it is of "divine authorship" it is something else again. At Harvard, proud of the freedom that makes liberalism its fetish and unorthodoxy its boast, there would be found but scant support for the latter opinion. It is all the more instructive...
Most disappointing of all to the Roving Reporter was to hear that same old gag which he first heard as a freshman. Someone asked for the dean. The time-worn Spoonerism offered in reply was "The bean is dizzy...