Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difference in the aim of its humor. Similarly, the humor itself is not the extent of its transgressions. The advertising, too, reeks with the malicious and depraved spirit of the Lampoon Board. From the advertisement of the Prudential Insurance Company, the obnoxious phrase "The trouble with the Fifth Chapter of Genesis" is held up as "other proof that the asses who bray throughout its pages are particularly concerned in ridiculing what other men respect...
...clock in Paine Hall of the Music Building, Miss Ruth Draper will give a selection of her famous monologues, under the auspices of the Divisions of Music and Fine Arts and the 47 Workshop. The proceeds from this performance will be used for the benefit of the Cambridge Chapter of the MacDowell Colony League. Tickets, at $2, $1.50, and $.75, are on sale at Amee Brothers' Bookstore, 21 Brattle street...
...general. "R. U. R.", on the New York stage, is a fanciful prophecy of what man's mechanical ingenuity might lead to, and that prophecy is not a cheerful one. Samuel Butler's "Book of the Machines", which argues the menace of matter over mind, is the most engrossing chapter in "Erewhon" And a writer of even more recent date, a scientist of repute, has lately filled columns of the public press with his concern over man's future amidst the complicated machinery, his own creations, to which he has gradually become a slave...
...achievement of these recruits, it was at least equalled by that of the college bred men who manned and successfully handled the little fleet of over one hundred sub-chasers that were sent "over there" to fight the elusive submarine. In my book, The Victory at Sea, a Chapter entitled American College Boys and Subchasers, opens with the following statement...
Eight Juniors and twenty-two Seniors received their Phi Beta Kappa keys last night at the annual winter meeting of the Harvard Chapter of the order Judge Robert Grant '73 presided at the meeting and President Lowell. Judge W. C., Wait '82, Mr. W. C. Lane. Professor G. H. Parker '87, and Mr. J. T. Lincoln '92 were the principal speakers...