Word: givens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steady spread of Group Banking systems has given local-minded politicians a new and well-sharpened issue with which to prod their constituencies...
...husband is sent to report. It is a sordid, ordinary tragedy, conceived and acted without much imagination. A Primer for Lovers. Playwright William Hurlbut once concerned himself with such austere subjects as the psychological borderland between religion and sex (Bride of the Lamb). In his newest play austerity has given way to ribaldry, sex is uncomplicated by religion. Manhattan dramacritics hailed it as bald, unblushing. Some of them inclined to consider it dull. This judgment, if you are not lulled to sleep by a series of marches and countermarches in boudoir land, is open to dispute. For despite its tail...
...Lament, the wife of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Flagler, Sherwood Eddy, Norman Thomas, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Harry Emerson Fosdick. . . . The conferees deplored the fact that there are only 29 centres in the U. S. where birth control information is given- four places in California (Los Angeles, Oakland, Pasadena, San Francisco), one in Colorado (Denver), eight in Illinois (all in Chicago), one in Maryland (Baltimore's Bureau of Contraceptive Advice, only one outside of New York using an unmasked name), one each in Detroit, Minneapolis and Newark, ten in New York...
...Yalemen it was obviously "another Harvard trick." Sure enough, six days after the theft, at a dinner given by the Harvard Lampoon (vitriolic, funny fortnightly) to members of the Yale Record (humorous magazine) at Cambridge, the Fence was miraculously revealed in the midst of the festivities. It was ushered in by "Robert Lampoon," official jester and longtime honorary member of the magazine's staff, with a piccolo. The purpose of the prank was also revealed: to make a picture of "Bob Lampoon" seated on the spot hallowed by Yale's Hickey, Coy, Heffelfinger et al; to publish...
...houses" are not colleges at all. In this he is right. I have said in that report: "It is purposed to divide Harvard undergraduates into houses where they may life in closer contact with resident scholars. To many, the plan seems less significant than the wide publicity given it would indicate. There seems to be no real desire to disintegrate the student body in respect to the teaching, which is to be university given rather than house given. Nor, apparently, are the colleges to be self-governing units, each really developing a life independent of the others. What the plan...