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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognize a little more the really splendid cultivation of Americans and not be, as Englishmen are inclined to, so patronizing towards "barbarous" Americans. Your question ought really to be turned around. Why don't Englishmen visit America? Enough of us go abroad as it is. If the English would come here instead of going year after year to Scotland, or the seashore, or France for their vacations, they would learn to admire us as we admire them. I have had the pleasure of entertaining several friends from "over there" and they were unanimous in saying they "could not believe...
Sirs: Re: "Putting England Right." Tell Mr. Sydney Walton to improve the English weather, thin out London traffic, make it easier to get on a good golf course, turn out some good-looking women in the shops, streets and society, install decimal currency, teach taxi-drivers to talk so I can understand them, have the newspapers print something about America- especially business news-get some shows and nightclubs running that can compare with Broadway (and stop that annoying "club" system that makes it so hard to have a good time except in roughneck night places). When these things are attended...
...subject to slight changes. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29. (III) Anthropology A Mallinckrodt Large lect. Rm. Anthropology 11 Memorial Hall Astronomy 1 Geol. Lect. Rm. Botany 7 Gray Herb. Chemistry 15 Mallinckrodt Large Rm. Class. Philology 30 Sever 17 Economics 7b New Lect. Hall Economics 31 Sever 5 English 2 Harvard 2, 5, 6 English 54 New Fogg Lect. Rm. French 9 Emerson F, J Geography 7 Sever 5 Geology 17b Sever 18 German 1a. sects. 3, 4 New Fogg Lect. Rm. German 2. sects. 2, 3 Sever 11 German 12b Sever 30 Government 8 Harvard 6 Greek B 1 Sever...
Under the auspices of the University Department of English, Professor W.B.D. Henderson, of Dartmouth College, will give an illustrated reading this evening. His subject will be "The New Argonautica." The meeting will be held at 8 o'clock in Emerson D. and is open to the public...
...arrangements now in progress for the proper housing and correlation of the valuable libraries of poetry belonging to the University. Few institutions can boast such completeness as that afforded by the Norton gifts. Practically all the important, and a great deal of the lesser, verse written in English since Elizabethan times are here represented. With this material as a background the collection of modern verse left the University by Miss Lowell should combine with the books bought by the Gray fund to give Harvard a poetry library unique in this counrty...