Word: arens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard men may be smarter but they certainly aren't any wiser", was the opinion of John Skehen, yard man and gate-keeper for nearly half a century, as he reminisced, on the University undergraduates of 40 years ago. "They cut up more but they don't enjoy it half as much as the boys back in the eighties...
Mechanical horses aren't novel. Most first-class ocean steamships have them. In the gymnasiums of clubs frequented by tired business men, they are a regular institution. In fact, Dwight W. Morrow, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. and classmate of the President, uses one. It was Mr. Morrow who brought the contrivance to the President's attention and presented him with the one now in the White House. It might never have been discovered had not it become disabled and a hostler-electrician been called to repair...
...general irritation. Harvard men have got the notion,--perhaps it was the foot-ball season which put in into their heads that their University is losing ground, and not knowing the situation fully are a prey to exaggerated fears. They are worrying about all sorts of things that aren't so: the other day a loyal graduate complained to me about the need of changing the policy of a certain department, and was relieved to hear that it had already been changed two years ago. They are prone to make rather imposing mountains out of molehills; to orget that many...
Cyril Maude, the famous English actor who is now playing in Boston in "Aren't We All", will be the guest at a luncheon in the Faculty Room of the Union at 1.15 today. The luncheon is given by the Union and is the first of a series which the management plans to hold from time to time. Professor Bliss Perry will introduce Mr. Maude, who will talk informally after luncheon...
After the luncheon Mr. Maude, who is now appearing in the comedy "Aren't We All" at the Hollis Street Theatre in Boston, will make an informal speech and then will meet personally the members of his audience...