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...knows how to get the coin. ††Has had valuable experience regarding use of mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...booklet on "The History and Traditions of Harvard College" can be ordered at the CRIMSON up to July 1. Fifty cents in coin or stamps should be enclosed with the applications and copies will be mailed to the address given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRADITION BOOKS GO ON SALE JUNE 21 | 6/12/1928 | See Source »

...island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn the sport as the essence of manhood and beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: The Pit | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Patriots boiled last week over a stricture passed by Captain Charles W. R. Knight, British ornithologist. Captain Knight had been making money in the U. S. with a cinema-and-lecture on eagles. Scrutinizing a U. S. coin he had observed that the bald-headed or American eagle depicted thereon was "just taking off instead of in full flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Feet of a Duck | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Expenditure for this kind of knowledge is made in the precious coin of time. Few things in college are more difficult than the budgeting of knowledge and self appraisal. Two who have reached extreme conclusions about outside activity may sit nearby in classes, each a living reproach of the other, and each with an albatross about his own neck. What is amiable weakness in a Senior is a fault in them. They have dared to dogmatize, where to dogmatize is intellectually fatal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASTRIDE OR SIDESADDLE | 5/3/1928 | See Source »

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