Word: books
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provision of the Norton Chair of Poetry is that the lectures delivered by the holder shall each year be published in book form. The volume of Professor Garrod's lectures will thus be added to those he has already published, 'which include "The Profession of Poetry", and critical works concerning Keats and Words worth...
...Hillyer '17, assistant professor of English, and E. A. Whitney '17, assistant professor of History are members of a new committee which will issue at intervals throughout the year lists of recommended recent non-fiction, a service made possible for alumni and undergraduates of Harvard through the book department of the Harvard Cooperative Society, it was announced yesterday...
Marketable commodities are the private opinions, the private reminiscences of public men. Alfred Emanuel Smith, office holder for more than 30 years, never forgets the voting, book-buying public's predilection for personal revelations. In his newly-published autobiography he garnishes the heavy fare of his legislative and executive doings with inviting sprigs of intimacy...
...young girls, making them disappear, float in the air. He has had three challenges (in foreign countries) from young men whom he humiliated in public by demonstrating that they concealed a duck on their persons. He began with $00.25, and now has a home on Long Island. In this book he tells his adventures as a showman...
...enjoyed a glory, almost a fad, that is far more than his due. The wondrous relics found in his tomb far outshine the history of his political achievements. Mile. Tabouis, learned, impassioned, recites that history, conjures up its sociological, scientific and commercial background. But the illustrations in her book are only added testimony that this mighty man would be forgotten were it not for the glittering chrysalis of stone and metal in which he lived...