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THE BATTALION
The Greater Palace
Big Double
Program
NANCY CARROLL
in
"LAUGHTER”
LAUREL AND HARDY
In A Three Reel Comedy
u Another Fine Mess”
P R E VT E W
11 P. M. SATURDAY
CONRAD NAGEL
in
“FREE LOVE”
Will Also Be Shown Mon.—Tues.—Wed.
Comings
SHOW TALK
By Fred L. Porter
Wednesday night—Assembly Hall,
“Liliom.”
Thursday night-.—Assembly Hall,
“Remote Control.”
Thursday, Friday and Saturday—
Palace, “Laughter.”
Saturday afternoon—Assembly Hall
“The Social Lion.”
Saturday night—Assembly Hall,
“Common Clay.” Preview, Palace,
“Free Love.”
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday—
Palace, “Free Love.”
* * *
“Liliom,” a picturization in the
Hungarian manner of carnival life,
of death, of Heaven, of Hell, is the
attraction at the Assembly Hall Wed
nesday night. Charles Farrell, only
fair, Rose Hobart, excellent.
* *
William Haines’ latest talkie suc
cess, “Remote Control,” comes to tin-
Assembly Hall Thursday night. The
cinema shows the life of people in a
radio station; a clever clairvoyant
who directs the activities of his band
of thieves through nightly broadcasts;
and the love of two of the station’s
“hired hands.”
* * *
“Laughter,” a picture with an ex
cellent rating opens -at the Palace
Thursday for a three day run. A chor
us girl who marries for money only
to find that she can’t live without
laughter. Fine acting and brilliant
dialogue makes this picture a film
that is worth seeing.
Nancy Carroll is the chorus girl.
Frederic Marsh is the young over who
steals the picture from the lovely
Nancy in spite of her excellent per
formance.
“Min And Bill”
and
“Bat Whispers”
^ ■ ^
The New Year
Has Just Begun
WE HAVE THE NECESSARY ARTICLES
TO MAKE THE YEAR SUCCESSFUL
FOUNTAIN PENS—
STATIONERY-
DESK LAMPS—
LIGHT GLOBES—
ALARM CLOCKS—
PENNANTS—
UNIFORMS.
The Exchange Store
The Official Store of the College
* * *
“The Social Lion,” featuring Jack
Oakie, Skeets Gallagher and Mary
Brian, is to be seen at the Assembly
Hall Saturday afternoon.
Oakie, an auto mechanic and would-
be pugiiist crashes the gates of the
elite because of his uncanny ability
in wielding a polo mallet. He falls
for one of society’s children and short
ly thereafter is made the goat. Gal
lagher, as Oakie’s manager has his
usual comedy skit. Mary Brian, who
has the female lead proves that the
way to a man’s heart, and purse, is
through his stomach.
THE PAN
Colleges are failing their students—
That’s the startling statement that
greeted our eyes while glancing
through a current periodical some
time ago. The author evidently had
covered his subject from every poss
ible angle and being a college grad
uate himself, his opinions and de
ductions can be seriously considered.
Present day authors—
have been, as a general rule, de
voting their efforts toward the des
truction of many hitherto awe-in
spiring American ideals and making
the heroes of history appear as
commonplace as the cornor grocer-
man. This editorial that we so in
tently persued was somewhat of
of this nature in that it disrobed
our highly regarded institutions of
learning and revealed the antiqua
ted machinery that so pitifully at
tempted to answer the demand of
modern knowledge-hungry youths.
Recent Investigations—
which were carried on to determine
the reason for so many college stu
dents failing to complete their edu
cational exploits because of “flunk
ing out” prompted this editor to ex
press his views. That the college
might be failing the student instead
of the reverse condition, possible
occured to very few of us, however,
we confess entertaining “cynical”
views of a paralled nature. Some
how we didn’t regard the article as
-a flowery alibi for the ambitionless
drones who enter college solely to
evade labor, but it sounded more as
an intelligently reasoned answer to
the question arising from the col
lege failure evil.
Inadequacy of brain power—
isn’t aways the reason why students
find themselves “on the outside
looking in”. Quite often and alarm
ingly too frequently, sufficiently in
telligent youths are victims of the
modern educational evil which
might be well termed “highly spec
ialization”.
When a boy or girl enters college—
approximately nine out of ten times
neither he nor she is fully decided
as to what course to follow through
out life Consequently, shouldn’t
some liberalization be exercised by
the institution which they are at
tending ? Instead the student is
steered and set along a course
much the same as one would navi
gate a ship, and even though the
subject matter at hand becomes dry
and uninteresting, and its impor
tance unquestionable, it must be met
and passed satisfactorily else no di
ploma, that awe-inspiring certificate
of absolute educational domination,
will be awarded. Should the stu
dent falter or pause to question
his blind pursuits, he loses step
with his classmates and as a result
becomes an outcast, a failure. At
home he becomes the target of
abuse, his father’s anger, his
mother’s tears, and all because his
dreams of ivy-covered building,
tradition-laden campus, and kindly
personally interested professors had
become a nightmare of the most ex
acting studies taught by impersonal
seekers of masters degrees or old
men whose fires of ambition had
died long ere this.
If you should be so unfortuneate—
that you are compelled to leave
school at some time because of fail
ing, don’t seek comfort in this man’s
ideas but regard them as something
worthwhile and use your costly ex
perience as a tool wherewith to find
your vocation.
Use Co-ed's Diary In
Party Investigations
TIFFIN, O.—Three co-eds and a
young man, all students of Heidelberg
College here, have been indefinitely
suspended by the faculty after an
extensive inevstigation by that body.
The explanation of the suspensions
on the campus was simply “infrac
tion of the rules and smoking.”
It was learned, however, that mem
bers of the faculty are carrying on
an investigation of parties that have
been held in and near Tiffin. Other
students are said to be under suspi
cion.
It was also learned on good author
ity that the factulty members have
possession of the diary of a co-ed
from which they have gained infor
mation which is aiding them in their
investigations.
To Aid Liberal Arts
Colleges In America
CHICAGO, 111.—A plan to secure
a fund of $200,000,000 for the benefit
of American liberal arts colleges has
been formulated by the Liberal Arts
College Movement, recently organiz
ed with President Ward, of Western
Maryland College as chairman.
The purpose of the movement, its
sponsors declare, is to promote liberal
arts studies.
“We shall undertake a vast adver
tising campaign,” said Dr. H. J.
Burghstahler, of Cornell College,
Mount Vernon, Iowa,- “which shall
urge American youth to undertake
such college work as will make them
well-rounded citizens. Too frequently
students are graduated with a lop
sided education. They know one sub
ject very well, but don’t know any
thing about anything else.”