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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pipe for a cocktail shaker on receipt of the news that Aunt Alice is going to try having him swear off on smoking instead of drinking this New Year. This time he has been more provident, however, and was careful to select a store that made a conspicuous display of its "No Credits or Exchanges" sign that was reassuring in its finality. For once he is prepared to enjoy the days preceding the festivities in perfect tranquility, and if it later develops that Gloria simply despises Oriental perfume she can give it to a younger brother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/8/1928 | See Source »

...Flying Club has been made the Cambridge agent for the Photographic Department of Skyways, Inc. During the fall this concern has been taking pictures of Harvard College the Yard and Soldiers Field from the air, and some excellent views have been obtained. These pictures will probably be on display at the Coop this week or next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYING CLUB ACTIVITY IS TO STOP DURING WINTER | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

...entrance examinations does not know that grotesque gold pins embellished with cabalistic signs and Greek letters are ornaments suited only to the barbarous taste of the Far West; or that on public occasions bad hats, seedy coats, and pepper-and-salt trousers should be laid aside. The suspicious diamonds displayed by the itinerant tradesmen who replenish their wardrobes from the refuse of our own would in themselves be a sufficient caution against an extravagant display of gold and precious stones in the way of rings, studs, and scarf-pins; and that dress waistcoats are inappropriate companions to sack coats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men of 53 Years Ago Reckoned by Contemporary as Too Well Dressed--Crimson Sets Styles for Freshmen | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...anything of the sort. The coat should be either a very loose sack or a very close-fitting cut-away-- there is nothing meaner than a mean between two elegant extremes. The waistcoat should be cut high in the neck and long in the waist; a single breast makes display enough. Trousers, it is needless to say, should be at least eighteen inches in diameter. Black frocks have been worn for some time of an afternoon. Their days are numbered. The Jews have got hold of them of late; they have become rather tigerish; and blue, reaching fully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men of 53 Years Ago Reckoned by Contemporary as Too Well Dressed--Crimson Sets Styles for Freshmen | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...Lovers Panoramas" a small book on St. Valentine's day with many illustrations probably the most valuable book in the third display case it is chiefly composed of a series of pictures of the adversities suffered by lovers the pictures being tied together by a story. The original drawings for Park's "Twelfth Night" are of about equal value. This is a series of pictures for the Park's book of games to be played on the twelfth night after Christmas a day which is always celebrated in England as concluding the Christmas season. Washington Irving's "History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

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