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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...card-tables in groups of four. Of the women, who were between the ages of 25 and 55, some were dressed with the restraint of style that indicates expense and others had an air of neatly inadequate penury. But all were businesslike. Of the men, one caught first attention-a stoutish man in a pincenez, with a broad waistcoat crossed by a gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This was Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead, bridge-expert. The people with him were all students in his course for bridge teachers. When he or some other...
...educating. Said he: "Only one argument exists against teaching birth control and that is the possibility of its leading to sexual promiscuity. But that argument grows weaker daily, for men and women are daily growing more promiscuous anyway." The American Birth Control League has called for a first national conference on birth control, "to consider its social, moral, religious, economic and legal aspects." Place: Manhattan. Time...
...interview was Mlle. Keila's first in her two seasons, and she claimed that she was greatly excited. She apologized because the interview could not be held in her dressing room, as Mlle. Lezandre was costuming herself for the next number. The interview was therefore held in the wings, in a very noisy position. When asked if the audience could not hear the noise made backstage, she paused a moment while a member of the chorus and a scene-shifter had a slight verbal battle, in which terms were used hardly agreeable to Boston censorship. "Oh," said Mlle. Keila...
Three sums of $4,000 each will be taken from the grand total: the first to go to Phillips Brooks House; the second to be reserved for class funds; and the third to be used for the Student Council and organized charities. The money for the class funds will be allotted as follows: to the class of 1930, $1,600, of which $1,000 is a loan for the Senior Album, to be repaid, and $600 a fund for entertainments and general expenses. Of the remaining $2,400, $600 each will be given to the classes...
...John Barnard edition will include a proscript by George Edward Woodberry '77, who holds a distinguished position in the contemporary literary world. Professor Woodberry first saw the Notebook during his Senior year at Harvard, when the atmosphere of the College was not very favorable to Shelley, and in his introductory paragraphs he writes of the thrill he received when he was permitted to handle the priceless poetical relic...