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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just cultured, how much they'd give for an evening with Spinoza or Kant, or one at a concert or a less stylish but heavier play. Picture the deb, with all these thwarted intellectual desires--dancing, dancing her life away, and all because the omnipotent Moloch makes it clear that she is to do or die. Too few of us accord her the full sympathy she deserves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANCERS WITH FATE | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

Besides the numerous breaches of taste which occurred yesterday, such a mess was made upon Widener steps that the University had five men working five hours to clear it away. Whether there is still a place at Harvard for initiations essentially inoffensive but still childish and collegiate is not now the point. It will be unfortunate if the College authorities feel forced to break with custom and interfere with a situation which should be corrected by the individuals directly responsible. It will be a sorry reflection upon Harvard maturity if preparatory school correction must be meted out from above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUBLIC INITIATIONS | 10/17/1929 | See Source »

They are one (1) Ford, letterd up with clear and not so clever slogans, and the Hasty Pudding initiations. Although they are both much out-of-place in a supposedly enlightened institution like Harvard, they are testify that some undergraduates are still children after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

...Shumann engine produces 60 h.p. Its reflectors cover an acre. If an efficient and practical sun engine can be built, its sun source of energy is not only free but stupendous in quantity. The energy falling on a square mile of earth on a bright sunny day with a clear atmosphere is equivalent to two or three million horsepower. According to Dr. Abbott the sun energy reaching the whole earth each day equals the caloric value of 507 billion tons of coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solar Engine | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Liberty readers were Liberty editors, who hastened to deny the truth of her denial. Said Executive Editor Sheppard Butler: "Perhaps Miss Oelrichs has forgotten she wrote the story. We purchased it some months ago." Said General Manager Max Annenberg: "We will sue her . . . only ask minimum damages. We must clear the name of Liberty."-for Liberty had been accused before of taking liberties with signatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Liberty Liberties? | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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