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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage, in fact, for a good part of it, she is a distinct second fiddle. This is all the more remarkable, because there are few enough actresses of her attainments who would take such a part, and none that would do it with such a fine sense of the artistic unity of the whole, and such a nice realization that she was there purely for background. So superbly is she unobtrusive, so definitely part of the picture, that one forgets she is the same Lynn Fontanne who was the charming mistress in "Caprice", the flower girl in "Pygmalion", the artist...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

Nock expressed admiration for the library system at Harvard and explained that the privilege of studying in stacks was a great help to a scholar. To one who is collating a text or occupied in some other equally fine research the convenience of studies in the stacks is invaluable. He thought that the Widener Library is perhaps the greatest asset of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAYS HARVARD YARD HAS CHARMING ATMOSPHERE | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

...most reassuring part of the whole matter is the thought that with as fine a group of men as will be associated with the Houses as Tutors and with as comfortable and agreeable surroundings as the Houses will afford there will probably be no question of anyone's eating a large majority of meals in his House. Many other minor objections will doubtless be forgotten as soon as men are actually living in the Houses. G. C. St. John...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of Understanding | 12/12/1929 | See Source »

...fact that this financial pressure will bear more severely upon men of moderate means than upon the wealthy. It still thinks that such a situation is in accord neither with the spirit of democracy nor the traditional freedom of the undergraduate. It completely agrees that it will be a fine thing if the surroundings in the Houses will be such as to make a man want to take a majority of his meals there. Its contention merely centered around the point that a high weekly rate not only detracted from the attractiveness of the House Dining rooms but makes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of Understanding | 12/12/1929 | See Source »

Occupational surveys of Harvard graduating classes have been made in 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1926. Throughout these four years, business was the most popular field, followed by law; also significant was the growth of the architecture, fine arts, and government groups, and the decline in preference for engineering, and teaching. New England and the Middle Atlantic States were preferred locations for work as expressed by the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SURVEY TO QUIZ SENIORS ON CAREERS | 12/12/1929 | See Source »

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