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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EFFECTIVE ABSURDITY | 11/12/1924 | See Source »

...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

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND DARTMOUTH TO GIVE JOINT CONCERT | 10/23/1924 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Darling | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oversight | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...either is thought good for Western girls, but Spence has also a large Manhattan clientele. Both offer preparation for college, but are attended rather for their adjacence to the theatre, the opera, the Metropolitan Museum. Both are considered "ultra."* The headmistress of Finch is Mrs. John O'Hara Cosgrave. Clara B. Spence, strong and gracious of personality, died last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seminaries | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

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