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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concert is free to all officers and students of the University. The public may, however, purchase tickets which will admit them to the gallery. These tickets are on sale at Amee Brothers Bookstore, at 21, Brattle street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRD WHITING CONCERT OF SERIES COMES THIS EVENING | 1/21/1925 | See Source »

...from what seemed to him tasteless and tawdry in the external fashions of the Salvation Army [in England] . . ." Philosophically, Mr. Howells was a benevolent realist; economically, a Utopian. His humor was courtly; and though others have thought that it sometimes trailed off into tenuous banality, Mr. Firkins will not admit a fault here. He calls it "irony of the salon." The Howells whimsy was multiform and pervasive, given to grotesque impersonations and rollicking image-jugglery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Benevolent Realism* | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...bout was the final elimination tournament begun some months ago by the New York State Athletic Commission to determine a successor to Johny Dundee,* former titleholder, who had been forced (TIME Sept. 1) to admit he could no longer scale his weight down to 126-lb. maximum allowed for featherweights. Kaplan hit his way to victory in the ninth of 15 scheduled rounds, winning every round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kaplan | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...Both men protest too much. . . . But both statements have a basic foundation of truth. We must admit that a large part of American college life consists of charm collecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Balm | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

...opposition." The belief in the miraculous powers of their rabbis, and in the blood-kinship with David of a line of rabbis now represented by Isaac Friedman's 17-year-old son, is essentially mystical and emotional in character. Orthodox Jews regard the cult as moribund, but admit its value and influence in the past. "Chief Grand Rabbi," say the orthodox, is meaningless ; as well say "King Kleagle Rabbi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chief Grand Rabbi | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

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