Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor v. Capital. "Pineapples" are what General Johnson calls thorny problems. Last week his great adventure was festooned with two large "pineapples." Pineapple No. 1 was the classic conflict of Capital v. Labor, raised not from out side but right within the Administration...
...world who think of Japanese civilization as dating from Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) would change their minds after reading Lady Murasaki's The Tale of Genji. Written some time ago (1001-15) by a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Akiko, it has been a widely-known classic in Japan since 1022. When British Scholar Arthur David Waley brought out the first volume of his translation (1925), critics tumbled over themselves to get within wreath-throwing distance. The Tale of Genji was compared to Proust, Jane Austen. Boccaccio. Shakespeare. Its translator calls it "by far the greatest novel...
...George Frei Jr. the two-and-a-half year Paris scholarship of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects for a project to house a National Banking Board in a monumental group of buildings in Washington. No modernist, Architect Frei's buildings were designed in what he called "modified classicism," a style which seems to consist in substituting plain bands of stone for the traditional classic entablatures. Still Architect Frei believes architecture should be timely, said his winning design was "fun to work on because it bore a definite relation to the actual trend of affairs." Last year...
Strengthened by several American stars, an Oxford-Cambridge track team will invade the Harvard Stadium on July 8 to oppose a favored Harvard-Yale group in the biennial British-American track classic. Of especial interest to Harvard men will be the return of Oscar Sutermeister '32, now studying at Cambridge, and of N. P. Hallowell "32, wearing the Dark Blue of Oxford, to compete against their fellow countrymen in the pole vault and half mile respectively. Byles of Princeton and Stanwood of Bowdoin are also on the British team. Stanwood made history for Oxford last March by winning three firsts...
...stood her in such good stead during the arduous fight last winter for the Massachusetts Indoor Crown. It is interesting to note that this quality of the team stands in direct contrast to the characteristic power which is the main hope for a Crimson crew victory in the Thames classic this evening...