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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story writing include the theme of the college bounder whose incredible extravagance leads him to the purchase of rosewood mounted radios and such bibelots with which to satisfy his sybaritic lusts and whose ultimate depravity is the selling of a pair of football tickets to a speculator, "the act, he knew, of a certain type of student designated by an obscene noun," if, I repeat you can believe our colleges are the scenes of such debauched revelry and licentious extravagance, you will have a hot half hour with "The Trun of the Tide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEEBE FINDS CURRENT NUMBER OF ADVOCATE LITTLE ABOVE MEDIOCRE | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

...experience in public office made me know that whether I was to be overburdened with work and broken down in health depended more on myself than any act of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...finds in the colleges, there is bound to be some stage talent, which if it were not for the college dramatic clubs, might never be brought forth "Many who originally participate in college plays more for the fun of it than because of the recantation that they can act, later become well known actors," the playwright went on. "The few that enter college with a dramatic career in mind have ample opportunity to develop their talents in the under graduate productions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Author of Dramatic Club's Latest Offering Praises the Undergraduate Thespians for Producing Untried Plays | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

...only do certain things under certain conditions worked out previously by a human mind. The machine was built at the Westinghouse Laboratories to answer a definite need, but, unfortunately the publicity department heard about it, and what started out as a serious invention has turned into a vaudeville act. Televox now has three brothers who are being shown in different parts of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mechanical Man Throws Electric Switches at Sound of Its Inventor's Voice--Televox Developed for Remote Control | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

...will act on the Senior Executive Committee of the first Annual Military Ball were announced last night by P. J. W. Bove '29, chairman, as follows: A. E. French '29, F. A. Clark '29, John Gardiner '29, Charles Hart '29, Arthur Donahey '29, Artemas Stewart '29, John Whiting '29, and Hulburd Johnson '29, J. E. Barrett '30 will represent the Naval Science Unit on the Committee. The dance will be given at the Copley. Plaza on February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MILITARY SCIENCE MEN TO GIVE BALL ON FEBRUARY 27 | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

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