Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...emphasizing more than ever its advertising value and commercialism. Moreover, it cannot be denied that the demand on the part of the graduates arises from a commendable desire to have Harvard in good repute in the various localities. Plainly, this is using the football team as an advertising agent. The principle underlying the present policy of playing only one game a year away is that the football team be not used as an advertising agent; it is therefore evident that intersectional contests are not in accordance with this principle...
Before the United States entered the war, Mr. Holt was appointed by President Wilson as a special agent to investigate conditions in devastated France and Belgium. After the Armistice was signed, he went to Paris as a special correspondent at the Peace Conference...
...moving-picture industry and its out-let for three years, he could raise the country's intelligence ten percent, and its morals in proportion. Whether he is right or not would depend on his method of atback. Obviously, if the movie lost its interest and became purely a moralizing agent, it would at once lose its audiences and some new form of diversion for the masses would spring up. It should take a genius to find plays that will both meet the people's demand for amusement and "uplift" them as well; it should take a greater genius to write...
Reports are coming to the College police concerning one Will C. Stinson, stating that he has repeatedly trespassed on College property although he has been warned several times and fined in the East Cambridge court for this offense. He claims to be a book agent from a reputable house, and makes attractive offers to students, which have usually proved to be deceptive...
...agent of the Boston and Albany Railroad will be at the Cooperative Store every day from 9.30 A. M. to 4.30 P. M. during the next few days selling reservations and Pullman accommodations over the Boston and Albany and New York Central lines. He will also be prepared to give detailed information to students concerning trains at Christmas time on any line...