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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooks House has had its unique place in Harvard's existence for many years, and in general there can be no doubt that it has done well. Merely in serving as a clearing house between the numerous extra-University groups calling for student aid, and the numerous students who find tangible satisfaction in altruism or often in material training, Phillips Brooks House becomes an integral part of Harvard; and this activity is but a minute part of the web of organization interests. Freshman Week, the Loan Library, work in the Graduate Schools, the winter lecture course, allowe their continuation chiefly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE P. B. H. CONFERENCE | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...volumes the names of all persons who have made important contributions to American life. No living persons will be mentioned and no persons who "have not lived in the territory now known as the United States." Thus foreigners like the Revolutionary Marquis de La Fayette will undoubtedly find their place in a later volume. As it is the first volume already includes such names as Astronomer Cleve land Abbe (4 columns) ; British Baron Jeffrey Amherst (3 columns) ; President Chester A. Arthur (6 columns) ; Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (5 columns); Actor Maurice Barrymore (2 columns). The need of such a dictionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Abbe-Barrymore | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...aged monkey, Britton stepped around the ring, warding the wild, drastic punches of his adversary. In the third round, Brignola knocked a false tooth from Britton's mouth. Therefore Jack Britton drove Brignola to the ropes and kept him there with feints and clinches, ordering the referee to find his tooth and keep it. When the referee had found his tooth, Jack Britton laughed and the fight went on until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxers' Rebellion | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...fact the Union Press box is unique in its position in regard to the elements. Walled in on three sides and with a wide projecting roof, this enclosure never gets the benefit of the fresh October winds which find their way so easily into the analagous seats atop most Stadia. This inordinate confinement combines with the position directly over the smoking cigarettes of a capacity crowd to make the air hardly fit for use. Aside from the matter of hygiene, the decrease in visibility resultant from this pall makes discernment of the grid-graph a matter of blind chance reason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE YOUR JOB | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...ever happen again. The Yale games, four climatic endings of four undergraduate football seasons, are remembered after all the other games have faded into an indiscriminacy of thrill. And this Yale game will survive in a magic place of the mind where, forty-years on, every student may find again the old thoughts of that autumn at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO YALE, THEN | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

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