Word: hara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...logic of the illogical has never penetrated the American mind. Judging by the less subtle standards of Western civilization, no act seemed more certainly doomed to a fruitless failure than that of the anonymous Japanese who several months ago committed hara-kiri near the American Embassy in protest against the exclusion law. In this country a man who committed suicide, however elaborately, in rebuke to the foreign policy of Japan would rightly be regarded as a fool; one active worker would be of more value to the cause than a thousand mute inhabitants of the grave. Yet in Japan...
...memory of his deed will be a stimulus to haired of the United States nor that nationalists and militarists will make the most of the tradition to kindle the spirit of war. Americans may never be able to comprehend the tangled heritage of poetry and religion that gives hara-kiri such a control over the Eastern imagination, but at least they may see the results of such control. A hint may even filter through to the effect that what to one nation may seem nothing but a diplomatic incident to another may become an issue of national importance...
...Rice Harvard Mandolin Club 4. Hanover Winter Song Bullard Dartmouth Glee Club 5. Specialty Act (Dartmouth) The Barbary Coast Jazz Band and Joe Murphy '25 6. El Capitan March Sousa Up the Street Morse Harvard Banjo Club Intermission 7. Goin' Home Dvorak The Wreck of the Julie Plante O'Hara Dartmouth Glee Club 8. Specialty Act Harvard Instrumental Club Orchestra 9. Suabian Folk Song harmonized by Brahms Football Songs Harvard Glee Club 10. Marche Militaire Schubert Barcarolle Offenbach Dartmouth Mandolin Club 11. Dartmouth Song Segur Dartmouth Glee Club Fair Harvard words by Gilman Harvard Glee Club
...have known Bercovici for some years. It was John O'Hara Cosgrave of the Sunday World who first made use of his talent for limning the odd foreign character in a pseudo-fact story of New York life. Around the office of the World Bercovici used to be a wandering and slow-moving figure, his soft voice puncturing the bang of typewriters, smoothly but insistently. He is one of those quiet people, born to be persistent and destined for success. He and his ilk are important to America because they furnish us with a type of poetry which enriches...
...Davis Cup tennis play, at Philadelphia, was omitted. For the records, be it here set down: U. S., five matches; Australia, none. U. S. singlists-W. T. Tilden II and Vincent Richards; doublists-Tilden and W. M. Johnston. Australian singlists and doublists; Gerald E. Patterson and Pat O'Hara Wood...