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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Priests as Clappers. Perhaps the only humorous page of Laborite Ponsonby's whole appalling report is that on which he shows how the European press gradually and spontaneously built up an atrocity story out of absolutely nothing, after the fall of Antwerp in November, 1914. Without comment he presents the following press cuttings...
Under an arrangement already mapped out by Harvard's architects, first units of the 'house", scheme of student grouping will be located in the quarters built to accommodate freshmen. Other units of the Harvard plant will be constructed in the same section, now largely given over to tenements and factories...
...forms of the musical romance, that built about the love-story of a composer would seem to be the easiest to present and the most successful. Such, unfortunately, is not the case. The latest attempt, on the boards at the Majestic, entitled "White Lilacs," a romance with music, based on the life of Frederic Chopin, has all the failings and few of the fortes of the genre. That is to say, one does not enjoy fully either Chopin's music, or Herr Johannsen's play: the first because the music was almost wholly written for the pianoforte, not orchestra with...
Along with the announcement that a tower, containing memorial tablets to those who died during the World War, would be built at the side of the new chapel instead of being incorporated into it, it was stated that the whole memorial would cost $1,300,000 instead of $1,000,000 as previously estimated. About $8000,000 has now been subscribed and $500,000 more is being sought...
From 178th Street in New York City the mightiest of suspension bridges is being built, across the Hudson River. Its span will be 3,500 feet, its weight 90,000 tons, its cost $60,000,000. Like mechanistic titans, its two towers will stand 635 feet above the river.* Last week they had risen more than 450 feet, were visible for miles around. They shone with the preliminary coat of bright red paint which is applied to most steel structures.† An artist named McClelland Barclay saw the glowing towers of the Hudson bridge. He was inspired. "The new bridge...