Word: going
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swing's harmful little armful" drifted into town this week. The one and only Thomas "Fats" Waller is at the Southland with his band. And don't get the impression that when you go down there, you're going to hear fourteen or fifteen men earnestly endeavoring to blow their (and your) heads off. Far from this, Fats carries only six men in his band. But between some really mad kidding around, they get off some swell jazz for both listening and dancing...
Concerning the widespread protest aroused by the dismissal of the ten assistant professors, the memorandum says: "The men lot go were commonly "runners up" for permanent positions--men who lost out in competition, occasionally by very narrow margins...
...surprising, therefore, that some of them were immediately offered distinguished positions elsewhere; nor is it surprising, considering their length of service at Harvard, that they had strong advocates both on the Faculty and among the students. If the winners had been let go, they would unquestionably have found like support...
...illustrated lectures at which the members of the Quarter will speak, tracing the rise of the string quartet and of chamber music from Haydn up to the present time. The first lecture tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock will begin a series of twenty-four weakly lectures that will go on until January, when the quartet is planning to make a tour of the Pacific Coast, but will be resumed again in February...
Nobody contends that Harvard's 1939 eleven will go down in history as a world beater. Nobody who saw Saturday's game would predict a Rose Rowl bid for the Crimson forces. In fact nearly everybody feels we have, at beat. a "just fair" team. .... And bud to relate, those nobodies and everybodies are right...