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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the young gentlemen of Harvard University returned to Cambridge last week, weary of vacation and longing to resume their studies, one of the first things many of them did was to visit the Coop (campus co-operative store) or Dunster House or Amee's bookshop, and buy a volume that had been published during the holidays. It was rather an expensive book. Much that it contained was already on the shelves of boys who read anything at all outside of the cinema magazines. Nevertheless it was a peculiarly desirable book. It was part of a legend...
Today in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum there will open a representative exhibition of Degas drawings reproduced by the best methods. This Degas exhibition ushers in a series of exhibitions of reproductions of drawings especially arranged for University students and faculty who may buy the prints if they wish. Through the interest and cooperation of Mr. Weyhe of New York these prints have been secured at prices ranging from $1 to $15 each, thus suited to the average student purse. Today, the opening day, has been reserved for the sale of the reproductions to students. Dating from...
...legation guard was stationed at Managua. The alternative was a recurrence of political and financial anarchy. The marines stayed from 1912 until 1924 and their presence helped maintain order, although it caused resentment in Central America and evoked the cry of "dollar imperialism." In 1919 Nicaragua was able to buy back her railway and in 1924 her bank which had been controlled by the New York bankers pending the stabilization of Nicaragua's currency...
When the young gentlemen of Harvard University returned to Cambridge last week, weary of vacation and longing to resume their studies, one of the first things many of them did was to visit the Coop (campus cooperative store) or Dunster House or Amee's bookshop, and buy a volume* that had been published during the holidays. It was rather an expensive book. Much that it contained was already on the shelves of boys who read anything at all outside of the cinema magazines. Nevertheless it was a peculiarly desirable book. It was part of a legend...
Bargain Poetry. One may now buy a pocketful of poets for less than the cost of a novel. Carl Sandburg, Elinor Wylie, Poe, Whitman, Nathalia Crane, H. D.? these are ready, more are coming, prepared in essence on strong paper as a Pamphlet Poet at 25c the pamphlet. Now one may have an anthology piecemeal, buy it on the installment plan and include only his own favorites. The pocketful of U. S. Pamphlet Poets is published by Simon & Schuster. F. A. Stokes has published a British pocketful, including Keats, Shelley, Laureate Bridges...