Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the record of a certain hospital patient comes to the School, all the information about him, such as age, number of teeth, etc., numbering perhaps 500, facts, is put onto these cards by means of a code, a punch, for example, in row five column 37 meaning that the person in question is a convalescent...
...class so necessary to the dance's success as a social affair has waned considerably. It is of course difficult for each successive class to believe that it cannot improve on the efforts of its predecessor. The paramount conviction is that Memorial Hall has, in this ultramodern age, proved the nemesis of the dance and that its success would be assured by transference of the festivity to an up-to-date Boston ballroom. The class officers could petition for such a radical change of the character of the dance, but in the opinion of the CRIMSON it would...
...includes an introductory discussion of the historical legislation in England and the United States; the development of labor codes; governmental intervention in strikes; minimum wage legislation; the general problem of social insurance; European and American investigation and legislation relating to workmen's compensation; sickness and unemployment insurance; and old age pensions...
...Yeats- Macmillan ($2.25). Of contemporary poets many are bold, curious, fascinating; few are enduring. One of the few is Yeats, who in his triumphant youth brandished the wild beauty of Ireland with rich imagery of folklore, and in his reluctant 60's writes _a slim volume on old age reduced to platonic abstractions. What shall I do with this absurdity 0 heart, 0 troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a god's tail? But even age cannot undo with argument Yeats' fantastic imagination: Valley, river, and elms, under...
...editor of the Herald was asked if his office had any list of ''sacred cows." He replied: ''How in hell can I be expected to carry the names of all the members of the Union Club in my mind." *His father died at the same age...