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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impression, which a reader of the CRIMSON might gather, can be illustrated by a quotation of a paragraph from the CRIMSON editorial. "Daily the University is the scene of happenings which affect the outside world. It is false modesty to pretend that the discoveries of Harvard scientists are not of interest to outsiders, that the plans of the oldest and richest university in the country are of no import except to the handful of men who are charged with administering her affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Daily the university is the scene of happenings which affect the outside world. It is false modesty to pretend that the discoveries of Harvard scientists are not of interest to outsiders, that the plans of the oldest and richest university in the country are of no import except to the handful of men who are charged with administering her affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROAD TO UNDERSTANDING | 4/6/1929 | See Source »

Sirs: By applying such a word as "cowardly" to the expression of an opinion by Mr. Shaw you merely make yourselves and your publication ridiculous and affect him no more than a cur in the gutter snapping at a passing mastiff. I have long since ceased to buy your so-called "magazine," but from the copies I see now and then in libraries and elsewhere I gather that a cheaply-sensational attitude is its present pose. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...word, there is no real reason why anyone should buy "Leffing Ges" unless he particularly wants to do so. Perhaps, told over the radio by their author these things affect the risibilities: in cold print they affect the stomach...

Author: By H. F. S., | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/26/1929 | See Source »

...analogous to the Government. The ultimate salaries, while good, are probably somewhat less than would be the case elsewhere. This is more than compensated for, however, by the very definite permanence which is assured men who succeed with the Company. Business depression and the subsequent unemployment probably affect the Telephone organization less than any other group, for in good times or in bad, the Telephone Company will do business. It is so much a part of our economic and social life that nothing short of a physical or social revolution would have any great effect on the business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

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