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...works contributed by the Fogg Museum are two landscapes, entitled "Lake O'Hara" and "Camping Near Lake O'Hara." The Harvard Club of New York has sent portraits of James C. Carter and the also Joseph H. Choate...
...Hara next discussed humor as a profession. "It is," he said, "the most appreciated form of journalistic effort. A feature article or an editorial are soon forgotten, but jokes are remembered and constantly repeated. That is why humorists are paid so much more than other writers. The average salary of a newspaper man is about $50 a week. The average for humorous writers is from $200 to $2000 dollars a week. Only a few men get the top figure, but there are some, Ring Lardner and Will Rogers, for instance...
...Hara started his speech by commenting on the differences of the Harvard of today and the Harvard of ten years ago. The chief trouble with Harvard at present is, according to Mr. O'Hara, that the students are too "high-brow," or as he later explained, "Harvard is 20 percent American, and 80 percent Transcript...
Speaking of athletics, Mr. O'Hara paid tribute to the fighting spirit displayed by the football team last Saturday. "Although Harvard was nosed out by Dartmouth last Saturday--by a rhinoceros nose--I think that athletics are now on a sounder and more honest basis than was the case ten years...
...dealing with the topic of "Humorists, and How They Get That Way," Mr. O'Hara said. "Joke-making is as mechanical as any industry today. Making a joke is just like making is as mechanical as any industry today. Making a joke is just like making a Ford...