Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house in Baltimore, a mature-looking woman with pale, patrician flesh above her square-cut bodice, with brows like ribbons over quiet, uninterested dark eyes, looks out from a wooden panel at the doings of Jacob Epstein. Mr. Epstein, once a peddler,* now a dry-goods millionaire, will admit to a few friends that the lady cost him $250,000-about $1,250 per square inch since the portrait is only 17 in. x 11⅜ in. Her name is Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, and to set his mind at rest as to whether or not she was painted...
...Harvard has never been willing to admit that university athletics have become national in scope, or democratic in ideals and management. Harvard still holds itself aloof from any school that will not play when and where Harvard wants to play. Harvard will play no football team except at Cambridge until its final two games at the end of the season. Except in those two games, Harvard is not interested in a home-and-home working arrangement that will be fair to other universities. You must play in Harvard's own back yard on the date Harvard names, or not play...
Yard tickets: "Harvard Class Day, 1927. Admit one to the Yard, June...
Memorial Hall tickets: "Harvard Class Day, 1927; Admit one to Memorial Hall, 8-11 P. M., June...
State universities labor under a greater handicap than endowed institutions in the present movement toward further restriction of enrolment because of the limitations imposed upon them by their governmental connections. Almost without exception they are required by charter to admit all graduates from accredited high and preparatory schools. They are dependent for reform upon legislative action...