Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibition of the works of classic and modern authors, manuscripts, and medieval illuminated music of extreme value is being held for a short while at the Dunster House Book Shop, at Boylston and South Streets prior to the removal of the collection to the house of a client on the North Shore. The shop has nearly finished the task of bringing together the required volumes, mostly complete sets of famous authors in beautiful hand-made bindings and with hand painted decorations. Several Harvard undergraduates have helped in the book-seeking and cataloguing...
...more than five years. Harvard is contemplating taking up the hatchet again on the same subject. This time it's Yale. The new policy adopted by the Yale athletic committee whereby the Blue will wind up its season every other year with Princeton instead of with the traditional Harvard classic has been received in hard part by Harvard undergraduates. There is considerable regret and equal indignation in Cambridge that Yale should let lapse a tradition of such long standing as the final game of the season between the Crimson and the Blue by admitting Princeton to final-game parity...
...chief examples by the two pictures by Wateau; several examples of the different styles of Fragonard, still life pictures by Chardin, and a group of contemporary portraits. Watteau's paintings "Minuet" and "Fete Champetre" show clearly the lightness and frivolity of the court art. The advent of the neo-classic expression in painting subsequent to the Revolution and prevalent during the Napoleonic era, is represented by the large portrait of a lady by David...
...break had been coming, however for many years before. One of the classic games in the East, the Harvard-Princeton till got more and more out of control and officials of both schools sighed with relief when negotiations were completed calling off the contests. Reopening of the negotiations is still a great way off in football, the interview stated, but for minor sports, basketball, baseball, and track a well defined agreement is forthcoming in the very near future. Princeton is still hanging on to its "rotating" football schedule idea, a major promise since the break...
...rich, socially correct. has a mistress and a fiancee, is popular with his fellow-townsmen and a power in the local American Legion. When the Reds make trouble in Rivertown factories. Faber helps organize a raid on their headquarters. Then comes the annual automobile race, "the Rivertown classic." Faber, the local favorite, is doing well, when he blows a front tire, hits the rail and crashes...