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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gorillas, was an account of a zoological probe into the centre of the dark continent. This is a volume of short stories; love stories, African anecdotes, color stories about a chief who understood black magic, a leopard hunt, a march of wild phantoms through the jungle. The obvious comment upon princes, even Swedish princes, who write books is that laudatory insult reserved, also for bears who ride bicycles. But the literary lapses of Prince William do not suggest the comparison; he rides the fictitious bicycle of his fictions with grace, speed, confidence and dexterity, though lacking, perhaps, the vigor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roaring Bones | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

Glad to observe you waived comment upon the remarks of one G. H. McGraw, Woodsville, N. H., who wrote you regarding the advertisement of brass pipe in TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Eaton believes that there has been a general misapprehension as to the final goal, and he states a direct issue,--Oxford tutorial system versus the Lecture-Tutorial plan in effect at Harvard. Believing this issue to be of more than passing importance the CRIMSON will forego further editorial comment until tomorrow, when this column will be devoted to a careful and detailed discussion of the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ISSUE RAISED | 11/2/1927 | See Source »

Professor Clark's statement of the general educational ideas of President Mason of Chicago, and his comment upon the recent and more established innovations at Harvard only confirm the general belief that there is a tendency in American education which is rapidly changing into a purpose. Modelled after the German universities, American colleges are breaking from the mould--tending not to an imitation of the English or any other type, but borrowing what seems good and inventing what seems better. The present generation of undergraduates is, so to speak serving as a test case in many laboratories; that the experimenters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COMMON ROAD | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Hollywood, Calif., October 26--Bernard Vorhaus '25, the University's youngest scenario writer, whose first moving picture, "Sunlight", has met with favorable critical comment, will visit Cambridge soon. Vorhaus entered the University in 1921, and completed his course in three years with honors in English. He was then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD PRODUCER WILL SHOW HIS FIRST FILM HERE | 10/27/1927 | See Source »

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