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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ridiculous, of course, to claim that being a newsboy of itself will give an all-rounded education, adequate either for success in vocational life or other activity," said Professor J. M. Brewer, Director of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in answer to a statement made by Roger W. Babson, industrial statistician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brewer Calls Babson Statement That Newsboys Will Lead College Men "Ridiculous"--Lists Needs of Modern Citizen | 10/25/1929 | See Source »

This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock Professor Marcel Aubert, of the Ecole de Chartres at Paris, will give the third of his series of lectures in French on the great cathedrals of France. This talk, to be held in the large lecture room of Fogg Art Museum, will deal with Rouen. Bourges, Le Mans, and Soutances. The lectures are open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aubert Gives Third Lecture | 10/24/1929 | See Source »

...debating season will get under way tomorrow night when the officials of the Harvard Debating Council call together prospective candidates in a place to be announced. All speakers who intend to try out for the team will come to the meeting prepared to give a five-minute talk on either side of the question of censorship, in any one of its numerous aspects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL WILL PICK MEN FOR DEBATING TEAMS | 10/23/1929 | See Source »

...blush, every year, on the Monday morning following Lantern Night. The Freshmen, in the pristine glory of their untilted caps appear before us in wistful immaturity. We pity them, and we cannot be of service. Somehow, to give their caps a gentle shove to right or left smacks of the embarrassment of dropping dimes in beggars caps; the grateful glances of the aided are so humiliating to all concerned. And yet, friends, it is not even this that causes us our heated blush. It is that so many of us, in years gone by, have stealthily tipped our caps ourselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hats Off to the Ladies! | 10/23/1929 | See Source »

This week at the Central Square theatre one may see and hear Al Jolson in a vocal movie called "Say It With Songs." The only reason that this picture was made at all was in order to give Al Jolson a chance to burst forth from the screen in many of his singing orgies. And if you are a follower of the famous "mammy singer," you should by all means go to see this show. If, on the other hand, you do not like vocal refrain every few minutes throughout the picture, this is not the show...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/23/1929 | See Source »

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