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...story itself deals with every phase of life in a small college. Unlike most of its predecessors, the veils of idealism with which college is customarily enshrouded, are torn aside. A voice from the distance seems to thunder, "Look, Here you see it as it really is." Conversations are reproduced, in so far as possible, as they actually occur. Slang, slip-shod phrases and smut--all are prevalent. The evils of fraternities and hazing are vividly depicted. Our low state of morals is exposed. Our drunken habits are paraded. I hesitate to contemplate our dances...
...Edward L. Doheny testified again before the Senate Public Lands Committee. He produced the note given him by Secretary Fall for the loan of $100,000, but its signature had been torn off. Mr. Doheny said that the signature had been torn off so that in case of his (Doheny's) sudden death, his executors might not press Mr. Fall, if Mr. Fall was at that time unable to pay. Mr. Doheny promised to try to produce the missing portion of the note, which he believed was in California...
...That people go to some churches only to find the ikons torn down, busts of Marx, Lenin, Trotzky put in their places and atheistic meetings in session...
...Gray, in stating that American colleges have not been subjected to the rending forces that have torn intellectual Europe, is undeniably correct; but he does not carry his proposition through to its logical conclusion. The resentment at things as they are and the desperate desire for freedom from constraint, which to his mind make the attitude of the European student more promising than the unquestioning conformity of the young American, are induced by a set of most abnormal conditions, and must therefor partake somewhat of abnormality themselves. Realizing that conditions in Europe are far from healthy, Dr. Gray assumed...
...that remains of the Stadium goal posts which were torn up on Saturday by the Yale supporters in their exuberance over Yale's long deferred victory is a few splintered pieces now reposing in the Yale Club of Boston at 10 Derne street on Beacon Hill...