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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...KNOW WHO COULD AFFORD A LIFE OF LUXURIOUS EASE WHO CHOOSE INSTEAD THE EXACTING LIFE OF A PROFESSIONAL PIANIST STOP THE SHOTWELL SAGA WHICH YOU QUOTE HAS ONLY BEGUN FOR PIANIST SHOTWELL IS AMERICAN BORN OF MAYFLOWER STOCK AND MONEY HAS NEVER BEEN HER STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT EITHER IN HER LIVING HER FRIENDS OR HER MUSIC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Upon the Stanford campus women swarm. No co-eds these, but members of that most efficient administrative machine which enables President of Stanford and Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur to stand with such grace with a foot on either side of the continent. The Stan- ford Employment Office and Dining Hall System are chiefed and staffed by women, the Registrar's Office and Library have two men each directing a staff composed almost entirely of women, and in every nook and cranny of Stanford, women secretaries write, type, talk, phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Evening World's theory that this is to be explained by Yale's formidable reputation, acquired in the eighties, when Walter Camp had a monopoly on knowledge of the game, or else by the magic of the figure on the Yale totem pole, which is a bulldog. Either of these explanations is plausible and worth thinking about. Our own belief, however, is that the real explanation is to be found in the atmosphere of gentility which is thought to hang over the Harvard campus. Gentility, to the average American, suggests a lot of sissies: it is quite incompatible with physical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Situation Down at Yale | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

With the House Plan permitting occupants to choose either the college furniture of their own, the present unfortunate situation is avoided. In addition to this liberty the college furniture might well be varied and so managed that the students can choose the type they prefer. The realization of such a plan would allow each man to incorporate his own furniture with the preferable pieces provided by the College. Under this plan the House Plan atmosphere could be made more attractive due to the fact that it would be more personal and individual. This affords another means of averting the danger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF CHOICE | 11/29/1929 | See Source »

...poster appeared in Manhattan advertising "colored engravings for the people, published by N. Currier, lithographer:"† He either draughted the designs himself or copied famous paintings, lithographed them in cheap, garish colors, sold them by thousands. During the Civil War, with Collaborator J. M. Ives, Nathaniel Currier made battle scenes, gave them to prize-winning essayists and orators in the grammar schools and as premiums in grocery stores to drum up patriotism. After the war the firm exploited and illustrated early frontier anecdotes, railroad sagas, Mississippi River steamboat races. They flooded the country with pictures of George Washington at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Currier & Ives | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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