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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday evening, December 8, at 7.30 o'clock, the orchestra of the Pierian Sodality of 1808 will give the first program of the current season in the Living Room of the Harvard Union...
Students in the Harvard Engineering School are not to be allowed to apply for the first two units of the House Plan. Whether, in time, this group will be included, or whether separate quarters will be provided for it is still in doubt. But before the problem of the disposal of these some 200 students is finally solved, it is necessary to note both the lack of fairness and the lack of wisdom in separating the Engineering School from the remainder of the College...
...orchestra, under the direction of G. W. Woodworth '24, has been practicing steadily during the fall in anticipation of the winter season, and it has planned three special pieces for its opening program. The first will be Handel's Overture to the Ode for Saint Cecelia's Day, for strings and obees, based on the poem by Dryden. This will be followed by eight of Bach's dances from the suite in B. minor, for strings and flutes: Rondean, Sarabande Bource I, Bource II, Polonaise, Double, Minuet, and Radinaric. The concluding number on the program will be three movements from...
...reek with sentimentality. Not that this last is inappropriate or even undesirable in a musical comedy, but the constant harping upon the theme of European tradition versus American vulgarity arouses one's latent chauvinism. The humorous possibilities of Solly Ward's malapropian speeches are done to death on his first appearance...
...Evening World's starting point, the point score is even more Crimson than the list of victories. Harvard, that is to say, rolled up 183 points, Yale only 110. And two years Harvard administered such a drubbing to her ancient adversary as has rarely been recorded against a first-line team. The scores were 36-0 and 41-0. Since football has been football she has shown her superiority over Yale so markedly that only a few could fail to notice it. Yet these few, it would seem, include most of the sports writers of the country...