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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contemporaries knew nothing, although they had a clear conception of Yale and an even clearer one of the standards for which Princeton stood. Here is the one point in which there seems a great difference between Harvard and Princeton. "Individualism" is one of the catch-words used to express the fact that ten Harvard men of the same class might meet in after life not only previously unacquainted, but with nothing to stamp them alike; and this helps also to explain, perhaps, why all attempts to convey the sense of glamor in stories with a Harvard background, as Fitzgerald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARD AND CAMPUS | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

...CRIMSON takes this opportunity to express its humble acknowledgement of the work done by Dr. John Collins Warren, member of the Harvard Medical faculty and one-time Overseer. Fifty-six years of constant service in the interests of humanity and the University made him a figure of eminence. His death marks the passing of a man of great surgical skill, medical erudition and practical ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. JOHN COLLINS WARREN | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

Appeared in London the second tome of King Edward VII's biography, written by the late Sir Sidney Lee at the express command of King George. These books, both enormous, tell the whole story of Edward's life from the time he was a boy to his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Indiscretion | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...with , trepidatant that one attempts to express via the printed word and still more particularly via a daily newspaper any appreciation of beauty. Recriminations are too easy and accusations too ready; even now the words of the colored gentlemen, to the effect that "they are SO soft" ring in journalistic ears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MELANCHOLY DAYS ARE HERE-- | 10/27/1927 | See Source »

...houses for occupancy by non-union laborers. The union men would not budge. They paid their rent. They guaranteed to continue to pay their rent. The company thereupon forbade trespassing on its property and kept the milkman, the grocer, even the doctor from visiting its unwelcome tenants without its express permission. Then the company obtained from Judge F. P. Schoonmaker of the U. S. District Court an injunction for the union men's eviction, on the ground that they were hampering the company's business, part of which is the interstate shipment of coal. To hamper interstate trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Los Angelas | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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