Word: annuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief interest of the April number of the Advocate is in the generous selection it prints from the Harvard entries in the annual Story Magazine contest. Of these I liked Mr. Wenzel's "Journey to Shreveport" best. It is a more brutal and masculine rendering of the situation in Josephine Johnson's "Nigger Honeymoon," with the shock of full awareness reserved until the end. Although Mr. Wenzel makes good use of the excitement of his material, his story derives its value from his ability to observe, and from a sense of country passed through and the things people...
Princeton's Grecian Whig Hall was the scene Saturday afternoon of the final plenary session of the fourth annual H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs, as undergraduate leaders summed up before 125 delegates the round table discussions of the previous two days...
Last week the Middle Atlantic "Model Assembly of the League of Nations," an annual assembly of U. S. college students, met at Bucknell University and was embarrassed. Delegate Jerome I. Aron of France (i.e.,Haverford College) summed the situation up in impeccable French, translated by an interpreter with a strong French accent: "Ze League eez an illusion...
Stuffier Minneapolitans were always a little embarrassed by Mitropoulos' lack of dignity. But last week, as their symphony rounded out its season with an appeal for funds to balance the $250,000 annual budget, they thanked their stars for it. "Never mind my dignity," said Conductor Mitropoulos. "If necessary to continue the orchestra, I'll take the men to Seventh and Nicollet [heart of downtown Minneapolis] and play there and then pass...
...Hotel's ballroom, Conductor Mitropoulos and his men played a concert of musical burlesques and waltzes by Johann Strauss. Then, sure enough, they did pass the hat-to some 400 of Minneapolis' solider citizens. Into it dropped $20,000 and promises that the Minneapolis Symphony's annual guarantee fund of $130,000 would be fully subscribed for the next two years...