Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many scare-stories of revolts in the Ukraine have come of late from neighboring Rumanian sources that last week U. S. staff correspondents were despatched to learn the truth. These gentry, having prowled gingerly up and down the Rumanian side of the Russo-Rumanian frontier, and having interviewed numerous escaped Russians, reported with conviction that...
Harvard is often held a hotbed of conservatism. Out of this hotbed springs next month a rarity; a wholesale educational experiment. When Harvard men come back from Christmas holidays classes will not be called.* Last spring the governing boards approved a vote of the faculty of Arts & Sciences. Educational machinery ground out of this vote a plan. Instead of attending lectures the two and one half week period before mid-year examinations, the students will read books. These books selected by appropriate professors, will be supplied the library in quantities; will have direct bearing on the studies of the earlier...
DAYS AND NIGHTS IN MONTMARTRE -Ralph Nevill-Doran ($5). Author Nevill, who obviously knows his Paris, has brought forth a large volume which one feels will be purchased chiefly for gift purposes. Present-day Paris is not what it was. The foreigners have come with their money and changed it all around. The spontaneity of pre-War night-life has vanished. In its place flourishes a synthetic performance designed chiefly to catch the pound and the dollar. All of which constitutes practically a minimum in the way of news. There is some gossip in the book which will moderately interest...
After dinner, movies are announced to the mild disgust of Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland. Quietly they slip on deck and then descend a companionway to explore the ship. They come to the engine room. They discuss the engine. The engine replies by starting to turn over. Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland, rightly assuming that the yacht is in motion, are agitated, try to make their way back to their host, find that they are locked below deck. A pretty kettle of fish...
Although no Harvard graduates were winners of the scholarships, three men who are graduates of other institutions, but who are now in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, were awarded scholarships as representatives of their respective states. The names of these men and the states from which they come are: A. E. Smith 1G., Maine; R. F. Baker 1G., Michigan; and J. W. Nason 1G., Minnesota...