Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often railed against the practice of counting noses to determine principles. So obviously did he favor an aristocratic government that men set his objections aside as prejudiced. But Walter Lippmann's challenge to the right of majorities can not be avoided so lightly. In the current issue of Harper's, he logically asserts that no virtue rests in 51 percent of the nation from the simple fact of their majority. The denial of the fundamental tenet of democracy by Mr. Lippmann, one time editor of the New Republic, and at present in charge of the New York World's editorial...
Robert Benchley in the current "Harper's" never suspected he was to be used as a text for a sermon. Yet his article can well be thus employed. He suggests the necessity for a certain rapport between audience and actor too often completely lacking. Could he not suggest the necessity of such a rapport between lecturer and student...
...stock the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey owned until 1911, when the Government forced the disintegration of that corporation. Its directors last year were K. R. Kingsbury, R. J. Hanna, F. H. Hillman, H. M. Storey, R. C. Warner, A. B. Brooks, H. T. Harper, W. H. Berry, H. D. Collier and R. W. Hanna, all of San Francisco...
Which mention of hats reminds one to offer a plume to Philip Guedala, whose historical sketches have been a delightful condiment to the "Harper's" diet as he has rattled realities in the closets of the past and to the bold and true who recently suggested that the publishing of Miss Lowell's worst verse in all and sundry magazines does not help the sale of the "Life". There should be a Society for the Protection of the Reputations of Deceased Authors. Then literary Jerry Crunchers would have harder work, meriting their doctorates...
...addition to the Harper Prize Contest, the Vanity Fair Prize Contest, and others which are offering awards for undergraduate literary ability, the Harvard Union has now announced that a Prize Essay Contest will be run this year, as in previous years, with a first prize of $35 and a second prize...