Columbia Students Teach Themselves Contemporary Civilization Course
Columbia undergraduates and faculty co-create a new course on contemporary civilization focusing on war aims, economic and political problems. Students elect representatives, revise texts, and meet with professors. eight books planned led by Irwin Edman. Preparations push for adoption at other universities.
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New York
Mar
Columbia
H. E. Hawkes
Nicholas Murray Butler
Irwin Edman
Edman
Edgar Allen Poe
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
Burleson’s Umbrella Habit Sets Public Image
A biography-like sketch highlights Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson as distinctive for decades of carrying an umbrella, a long-remembered hat style, and nonstandard shoes. It notes his constant reliability, humor about his umbrella origin, and public duties from the White House to a Texas farm.
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Albert Sidney Burleson
White House
Texas
Mr. Burleson
San Antonio
Stork
Chinese Executioners by Bolsheviks Reported in Moscow
A Handelsblad correspondent recounts Chinese employees used by Bolsheviks as executioners in Moscow. He notes they follow orders without remorse, dispose of victims by leading them to graves and shooting, and act as indifferent instruments under Bolshevik command. He observed executions were rare, peaking during anti counter revolutionary purges. The journalist left Russia after restrictions blocked further inquiry.
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Amsterdam
The
Handelsblad
Soviet
Russia
Europe
Denikine
Moscow
Chineas
Tussia
Holtsiak
Bolshevik
Crne
Bolizjak
Boltsjak
France Pushes Birthrate Rise With Government Drive
The French government creates a Higher Council of Natality to boost births as war costs and population decline loom. Plans include 60 to 200 francs per child after the second, cheap homes for large families, supersalaries, and favored government employment, plus opposition to birth control.
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Paris
France
J. L. Breton
Breton
Woman
National Alliance
Alliance
Cat saves nine as ship crew heed warning whisker instinct
In Grangemouth a storm washed nine crew members from a small boat toward the Lake El liso. The ship's cat swam to the steamer guiding the men through darkness. two sailors John Shortne and Gilbert Stroud drowned. The Lake Extko left Norfolk, Virginia.
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Grangemouth
Firth of Forth
Scotland
John Shortne
Marlboro
Mass
Gilbert Stroud
North Carolina
Tabby
Extko
Norfork
Wheeler Oakman as Captain Pemberton Leads Priscilla Dean
Wheeler Oakman stars opposite Priscilla Dean in The Virgin of Stamboul a Turkey set tale by a free lance cavalry unit Black Horse Troop. Oakman praised as one of the screen’s handsomest and most virile leading men for the dashing officer role.
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Wheeler Oakman
Captain Pemberton
Black Horse Troop
Free Lance
Turkey
Priscilla Dean
Mr. Oakman
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