Word: closed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potent with the prestige of undistributed patronage. But even with these advantages Leader Watson, thought many of his fellow Republicans last week, made a poor fist of steering the Senate. Perhaps Leader Watson's troublesome week was partly due to the heat. In the Senate the temperature rose close to 100° F. In the House it was a comfortable 70° F. The House has a modern cooling system, the Senate's is not yet installed. With electric fans out of commission. Senators puffed, perspired, languished in linens. Leader Watson, clad in a light grey suit, wearing...
...Business Week will be operated so close to the news that the business world will get the news that counts while it is still hot; but it will be sufficiently after the event to enable the editors to clothe the facts with their full significance to business...
Today marks the close of Commencement Week in Cambridge. Over three thousand graduates have gone to considerable expense and trouble in order to renew their connection with the University for a few days. To many the class parades, the variegated costumes, and the whole atmosphere which pervades Cambridge is a futile expression of an outworn tradition; and yet year after year it continues and is subscribed to by the most intelligent men in the classes...
There are certain phases of every person's life which become disconnected, and for the college graduate the four years spent in getting an education represent the most striking example of this. After graduation a class inevitably breaks up and many close friendships die never to be renewed. And yet in later years when the Yard is merely a memory and the football teams is the only thing he hears about the graduate still retains a sincere feeling of appreciation to the institution that guided his steps for four years...
...placed in a position where it is prepared to meet all comers. Hon. John B. Stetton, Jr. 06, has made this his especial pursuit for several years, and he was particularly fortunate last summer in securing a very valuable private library in Portugal. This makes the Harvard collection a close rival to that of the King of Portugal in historical treasures, and in early Portuguese literature, while for the greatest of Portuguese writers, Camoens, Harvard's preeminence is said now to be secure...