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...traditional bits of advice worth passing on, if only for the sake of the record. Avoid blind dates at Radcliffe and that hideous building on Mt. Auburn St.; ignore resolutely the vultures outside Memorial Hall (except, of course, those offering the Crimson); and learn to sneer with fine Bostonian indifference when you meet the people who can always tell a Harvard man, etc., and who, convulsed, offer the simile: "As aloof as those men about to enter Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LET NOTHING YOU DISMAY" | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

Frederick P. Herter '42 was recently elected captain of the Yardling undefeated crew. Herter, a Bostonian and graduate of St. Paul's School, rows at the number 3 position in the Freshman boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1942 Crew Captain | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest. The President had to decide what to say, what to do. Since he must not say in public what he really thinks of Herr Hitler, his most important statement of the week was made through the icy Bostonian lips of Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Temporary Extinguishment | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Bostonian and I attended the Harvard Summer School. Personally I have nothing but the highest respect for Harvard and am sorry that Mr. Hardwick assumed the attitude which created bad feeling here. Hoping that no more such articles will appear, Yours truly, Benjamin Banulis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Juicy & Nocturnal. At the gallery of tall Bostonian Hudson D. Walker, watercolors by quiet Harry Glassgold pleased visitors with their dexterity and light-filled colors. In several of them 30-year-old Artist Glassgold got away with a few Marin tricks of shorthand with unusual impunity. Most critics accounted his work more lively if not more accomplished than the watercolors which Dealer Walker hung up this week by 28-year-old, waggish Stuyvesant Van Veen. Typical of his dry, ingenious work were half-a-dozen "nocturnes"' of New England small towns, among them Peterborough Backstreet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Summer's Fruits | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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