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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Regretfully, disapprovingly Connoisseur George Reeves-Smith placed the tips of his fingers together and said, "Since the War we have become as bad a cocktail and Champagne country as you ever were in America. I am speaking not of the Americans who come to London but of English people themselves. They are drinking more cocktails all the time, and the Vermouth dealers are making fortunes. As for Champagne it is crowding all the other wines out of our smart restaurants. The women are responsible; they always want Champagne! Every year they want it sweeter, more heavily liquored. And after...
...Miss Miller) an associate principal, was resigning and had been elected Associate Principal Emeritus by the Board of Trustees who wish to consult her on educational policy. Three of the old regime teachers will not go with the school to its new quarters: Miss Laura V. Tanner, of the English Department, and History Teachers Kate B. Reynolds and Theodora Bartlett. Oldtimers who will not depart, and whom alumnae classify variously as "meanies" and "peaches," are the Misses Emily Crawford (Latin), Edith Marsden (Geography), Emily Bennett (English), Elizabeth Allen (Mathematics), Josie Herbert (English), Fedora Edgar and Alice C. Hubbard (Art), Annie...
...Sixteenth Century display there is also an English publication a work of sir Thomas Moore in 1557. The Satyrs of Persius, put out of France two years earlier, is not in such good condition although the copicus interlineations in its pages make it interesting. The prize of the century is the Polyglot Bible, printed in Aniweir in 1572. It is a massive dome with rare full-page cuts of miracles and clerical symbols...
Upon the invitation of the Department of English, Professor W. B. Drayton Henderson of Dartmouth College will read from his recently published poem. "The New Argonantica", next Thursday in Emerson...
...Americans has risen to about two hundred but even that is less than a twentieth of the total enrollment and I imagine that one could find several national groups (though perhaps of American origin) at Harvard in higher proportions than this. With regard to the displacement of the English by American competition, it is worth noting that in the past few years I think that only one American has played on the Rugger team and the few men who have rowed have not been Rhodes Scholars. It must be admitted that in Track the Scholars (Colonial as well as American...