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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What will happen to jazz one hundred years from now?", he resumed in answer to a query. "Who Knows? It depends entirely on the public. It will never take the form of opera, for that is an art of the past. The only reason a man takes his wife to the opera is to give her a chance to show off her jewels and clothes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NEW INSTRUMENT WILL MAKE A HIT"-WHITEMAN | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

...Associated Press chose to quote from your editorial. But this I do know--my own college career was made possible by the Employment Bureau: I needed money and was willing to work. I was asked intimate questions by the Bureau, and I did not have too much pride to answer them. Had the Bureau shown the "indifference" you recommend, my college days might have ended prematurely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

...June, 1920 I was offered the job of tutoring this Yale man's son, the offer coming through the Bureau. I accepted, and later, when the opportunity presented itself, I asked my employer why he was willing to entrust his son to the charge of a Harvard man. His answer was that he was willing to sacrifice his Yale feelings to the confidence he had in the Harvard Employment Bureau. ARTHUR C. WATSON '19 New Bedford, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

...offered is to the point in so far as the ornaments of his theme are concerned; and if he has omitted the discussion of the most vital portion of the matter it is possibly because he believes that no individual, not even one well versed in the facts, can answer the question entirely satisfactorily and fairly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PRIORI | 9/28/1927 | See Source »

Ever since the Advocate ceased to worship at the shrine of the Dial and directed its casual litanies towards the Atlantic Monthly there has existed a feeling in certain quarters that there was one undergraduate mood or type which was receiving no adequate expression. The answer would appear to be found in the Hound and Horn, whose bay is akin to a yelp from the Village and whose blast is more dulcet than shrill. Not a popular magazine in content, in fact apparently somewhat proud of its aloofness, its appeal is directed to the denizens of the candle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HATH DRUNK HIS FILL | 9/27/1927 | See Source »

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