Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is my first novel. . . . How did I come to write it? Oh, I don't think I can tell you that. You see, I believe these things just come out of the subconscious mind. ... I write in longhand and I am so messy about it that each chapter has to be re-written a dozen times. I don't think I could use a typewriter- the hammering would distract my mind...
However all this may be, the humor in the new issue of the Lampoon is of a high order. The pictorial representation of "face lifting in the good old days" surpassed its prototype in life. Best of all is the psychology chapter of "A Popular History of Knowledge". The haphazard selection of "one of the lower forms of life" is the best sample of humor of the irrepressible type since Mark Twain asserted that he was not superstitious, but he always did hate to sleep thirteen...
...pocketbooks. Nothing could be more practical, nothing more just than the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau, for laggard students before the mid-year examinations, announced last week. Many a smart, shrewd Phi Beta Kappan has before this undertaken tutoring as a private enterprise. Never before has a chapter of the national hierarchy of scholarship lent its official seal. The new departure was presumably an evidence of Phi Beta Kappa's intention, announced during its recent endowment drive, to take an active part in U. S. education...
...only because it became effete during and not because of the process. Last week a most significant ceremony occurred in Rome, at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran (Roman Catholic). Protestant President Doumergue of France was inducted (by proxy) as Canon.* The ceremony, attended by the whole Cathedral chapter, was a revival, after 100 years, of a distinction once granted the kings of France. The delicate matter had been arranged between Foreign Minister Briand and Monsignor Maglione, Papal Nuncio at Paris, at whose overture not stated. But at prospect of improved relations between the Holy See and official France...
Professor H. J. Hughes '94, addressed the meeting, speaking on the founding of the Harvard Engineering School and the present chapter of the Tau Beta Pi. W. M. Hickey '27. President, and J. O. Harrold '27. vice-president, also spoke...