Word: backings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forth if there were any lack of demand for the course, or if it were being taken only by those with a good foundation in the Fine Arts. But the course is filled to overflowing every year with an ever increasing enrolment, while Fine Arts instructors themselves sit back and admit that the situation sadly needs remedying. A majority of students fail to get any real artistic appreciation out of their frenzied memorizing of slides, it is generally conceded and yet it is the assumption when they voluntarily enter the course that they earnestly desire to assimilate some knowledge...
Late Christmas afternoon 54 members of the Harvard Instrumental Clubs will leave Boston on their annual Christmas trip. The men will arrive back in Cambridge shortly before the recommencement of classes in January. Seven concerts will be given in as many cities of which Cincinnati, Ohio, is the farthest West...
Even Wets Don't Saloon Back...
Fifth, very few wets will say that they want the saloon back. Why? If the present conditions are, as they say, so much worse than they were when we had saloons, why not have the saloons back? The very fact that they are unwilling to say that they want the saloon back, has a meaning. They know perfectly well that present conditions, bad as they are, are vastly better than they wore in the days of the saloon. To that extent at least prohibition is a success...
...better that what it displaced, why not say frankly that it has done a great deal of good, but hadn't accomplished all that was expected of it. If that is not true, why are the wets so vociferous in proclaiming that they do not want the saloon back? If it is true, why not admit it frankly and then see what is next to be done...