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...International Column was organized and hurled into Spain just as Madrid's defenses were about to crumble, Communist Sympathizer Cox draws a veil, simply recording: "General Kleber was at the head of the first brigade of the International Column which arrived in Madrid on that fateful Sunday, November 8th. . . . The Spanish civil war is the third in which he has fought, and the third in which he has had experience of building up an army out of undisciplined masses...
...shell-shocked years during and immediately after the War. The object of dadaism was a conscious attack on reason, a complete negation of everything, the loudest and silliest expression of post-War cynicism. "I affirm," wrote early Dadaist Hans Arp, "that Tristan Tzara discovered the word dada on the 8th of February, 1916, at 6 o'clock in the evening ... in the Terrace Cafe in Zurich. I was there with my twelve children when Tzara pronounced for the first time this word, which aroused a legitimate enthusiasm in all of us." (Later Dadaist Richard Huelsenbeck claimed...
...folds the Alumni of Harvard. Over what a scene will it on that day display its blazenry! What a feeling of relationship will it establish between that age and the present!" He then moved "that this assembly of the Alumni be adjourned to meet at this place on the 8th of September, 1936." Immediately thereafter, the record continues, all the College buildings were "brilliantly illuminated by the students, at the expense of the Corporation"--a very practical precedent, indeed...
SEPTEMBER 8th, 1836--Early up with a heart full of joy to help my college celebrate her two hundredth birthday party. Enech in with some journals come by post from New York, calls it no great thing judging by the age of the English colleges, our sisters. But a piece of good fortune, I count it to be the first upon this wild continent...
...even as President Quincy moved "that this assembly of the Alumni be adjourned to meet at this place on the 8th of September, 1936," so President Conant, the final speaker, will conclude his remarks by making a formal motion of adjournment to the year 2036.PRESIDENT-EMERITUS LOWELL To Attend...