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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month the Saturday Evening Post made a rare deviation from custom, published a small "agony" advertisement consisting of a young man's photograph and the simple text: "HORACE! Please write your Mother" (TIME, Feb. 2). The identity of Horace was held in strict confidence by the Post. Fortnight ago the Omaha World-Herald revealed that the photograph was recognized there as that of Horace Burt, 27, grandson of the late Horace Greeley Burt, who was president of the Union Pacific Railroad (1898-1904) in the time of its domination by the late great Edward Henry Harriman...
...become almost a custom in this country for every young man that can afford it to go to college. Under these conditions there is a tendency for the intellectual standards of the university to be lowered to meet the capacities of the average student. Also boys of excellent character, though obviously unfitted for scholastic attainments, strain during their whole school life to get into college and then find it most difficult to stay there. The results are that the American universities no longer develop the best minds to their maximum degree, and many men who are not fitted...
...Dramatic Club will shortly resume an old custom, long in disuse, when Mr. F. Cowles Strickland, director of the Copley Players of Boston will lecture on some phase of dramatic art. The date has not yet been decided upon. Several similar addresses will be given during the spring, to carry out the organization's aim not only to produce two plays a year, but also to increase the interest of the University in its work and theatricals in general. These lectures will be on various phases of the theatre art, and will be open to all members of the University...
Full particulars of this year's summer cruise of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps were released Saturday by Captain B. B. Wygant, professor of Naval Science and Tactics. According to the announcement, contrary to all past custom there will be two separate cruises, one for Juniors in Harvard College and one for all other students who are taking courses in the Naval Science Department and wish...
Because I have been interested in collecting the folklore of American printing and printers I should be glad if anyone can accurately trace this custom of turning tombstones face down to the use of irreverent printers...