Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will give a program of readings from the great Victorian writers, on Monday, March 25, in the Dining Room of the Harvard Union. Professor Copeland will make a brief address on Tennyson and Browning, followed by a reading of some of the most noted and best liked selections from their works, as well as from the works of Dickens and Thackeray. Last year, the readings were from Shakespeare and the King James version of the Bible...
Yesterday's warm weather together with last night's brief rain, broke up the ice on the Charles to such an extent that the University crews may take to the river today for the first time since about December...
President Holt, onetime editor, still looks more like a newspaperman than a college president. He is energetic, sometimes embarrassingly outspoken. In 1927 he engendered a brief furore in educational circles by suggesting the abandonment of "the pretense of amateurism" in college athletics...
Dismissing all arguments based upon sentiment and tradition, the former as irrelevant with the far-reaching ramifications of the entire House plan, the latter as vulnerable due to the brief existence of the Freshman dormitories and the absolute lack of a Senior monopoly on the Yard dwellings, the paramount argument in opposition to moving the Freshmen is based upon the success of the present system of Freshman dormitories. This success, however, is purely accidental, the dormitories having been built more with an eye for such a plan as Mr. Harkness has made possible in conjunction with a desire to disintegrate...
...after a brief banking interlude, Melville Elijah Stone became general manager of the Associated Press of Illinois, Inc. and soon made it dominant in a field which had been confused by three conflicting news services. The present Associated Press was incorporated in 1900. By sending Associated Press correspondents abroad and by making alliances with European news agencies, General Manager Stone gave the U. S. more complete and impartial foreign news. Previously, most of the despatches had come through London and hence were British-colored...