Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ashamed until an octoroon of the fourth generation "passes over"-that is, becomes white enough to be ashamed of his shame. Ironically, pathetically, he goes, as his great-great-grandfather went before him, "to help people." Some call this book an unnecessary bore. Others call it almost indubitably a classic...
That Harvard will rank well up in the scoring at the indoor intercollegiates tomorrow can be reasonably expected. For her to win the winter track classic or even climb into second place would come as a surprise to the critics who almost unanimously favor Georgetown and Pennsylvania. It is a well balanced team, however, that leaves at 1.05 today for New York...
...worst influences in this tendency, he said, is that of the moving pictures. "I have only seen one really worth-while film," he said, "which was one starring the diver, Annette Kellerman. The beauty and grace of her performance could not be equalled outside of the sculpture of classic Greece and yet even this was marred by the taint of realism. Whenever she would strike the water someone behind the screen struck a cymbal to represent the splash...
...greatest of them all was John the Orangeman. For half a century he was the most popular man in Cambridge. His title to immortality is a now classic phrase which he coined in an inspired moment and repeated ever afterward on suitable occasions: "Ter bell wid Yale!" This won for him the mascotship of all Harvard teams, and in that official capacity he traveled with them wherever the fair name of Harvard was to be upheld on the field of combat...
...Motion Picture Classic would curry favor at the University, it is suggested that it ask and answer such questions as the following...