Word: frees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this "usefulness." There are many who think of education not as a tool to enable them to be useful. To men who prize a Harvard education, or any education, not for its value to something to be determined later, but for the opportunity which it offers for individual growth free of curbing restraint, the phrase will convey a meaning not in accord with what they have conceived, to be the glory of Harvard...
...series of illustrated lectures by Professor Paul J. Sachs '00; of the Fine Arts department, on "The History of Prints and Drawings as illustrated in-American Collections" will be offered free to the public under the auspices of the Lowell Institute. These lectures will be given in Huntington Rall, 491 Boylston Street at 5 o'clock. The doors will open at 4.30 o'clock and will close promptly at 5 o'clock at each lecture. will closer Tickets may be secured by applying by mail to the curator of the Lowell Institute at 491 Boylston Street. Boston; stamped, addressed envelope...
There will be two presentations of "Dublin Cycle" each evening, one at 7.30 and one at 9.15. They will be open free of charge to the audience of "Fiesta", but there will be no sale of tickets to the public. Contrary to current rumors the management of the play states that it is not a substitute play for "Fiesta", but that it was planned earlier in the year following the custom of the Dramatic Club in past years
Rumanian Sculptor Constantin Brancusi had to pay $4,000 to bring his Bird in Flight into the U. S. (TIME, March 7, 1927). Works of art are duty free. But Sculptor Brancusi's bird had neither head, feet nor feathers. It was four and a half feet of bronze which swooped up from its base like a slender jet of flame. Customs Inspector Kracke said it was not art; merely "a manufacture of metal . . . held dutiable at 40% ad valorem." The press bantered, jibed. Indignant modernists wrote abstruse, defensive paragraphs. Sculptor Brancusi complained to the Customs Court...
...from 89¾? a bushel to $2.00, then watched the market collapse to 60?. Present value of a Trade seat is $45,000. When the building opened it was $2,400. Even further back, in 1848, when a few pioneers organized the first grain exchange, they had to supply free lunches and beer to get traders to attend...