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From the windows of this room, a friendly beacon gleamed through the night to seven generations of Harvard men. Since leaving the Yard, Copey has lived at his apartment on Concord Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAMOUS TEACHER REMAINS AT HOME ON 75TH BIRTHDAY | 4/27/1935 | See Source »

...corner and peering out into the boery cacophony that surrounds him. Smoke drifts and hangs. Hectored barmaids bustle wearily to help Harvard's demi-monde with its forgetting. High school heroes and prep school might-have-beens assure each other of what they might be doing now. Beacon Hill-climbers rub their barked shins unseen and unmolested. Literary figures of other days talk stridently of what they could be writing. Yonder the Great Lover is educating Radcliffe, while a nearby group of almost-clubmen watch him with scornful interest. Frustration wanders quietly from booth to booth, barely perceptible through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/22/1935 | See Source »

...laughed. He was off again for fun, and at a good clip. Over the Pennsylvania's newly (PWA) electrified tracks he made the old five-hour trip from Washington to Manhattan in 3 hours and 53 minutes. Before dinner time that night he descended from his train at Beacon, Mass, and motored into Cambridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fun with Flies | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

That great Dunster Don Juan who makes flutter the hearts of the debutantes from Chelsea and the debutantes from Beacon Street was out a-hunting. This time the quarry was a dainty and delicious little nurse at the Boston Lying-In Hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/28/1935 | See Source »

Slushy streets and drizzling cold did not dampen the spirits of President Roosevelt when he attended the Fly Club Dinner Saturday evening. About 1500 people caught a glimpse of the Executive on his trip to and from the Beacon Park Yards of the Boston and Albany Railroad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VISIT OF ROOSEVELT | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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