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...being smothered in our present grammer schools because, we are told with splendid intuition, of logically arranged and logically presented content. What those phrases mean the adherents of them do not say it is enough that they have been given to the world. The storm-center of the educational havoc has been found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FLAMING YOUTH" | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

EXPRESSING WILLIE? A delightfully sensitive study of the havoc wrought by temperament in a plain business man. BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK? Deft and biting satire, wreaking a Freudian revenge on the Rotary clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 12, 1924 | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...riotous Crimson first inning can not be laid entirely at Robinson's door. His infielders helped the Harvard cause by contributing two atrocious errors. These, added to three hits and a wild pitch, gave the University five runs, quite enough to win. Thereafter Robinson raised havoc with the Harvard batting averages. Crimson bats swung vainly at his offerings, although one more run was marked up in the third by a base on balls and two errors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONE INNING SPOILS ROBINSON'S RECORD | 5/8/1924 | See Source »

...University, is authority for the statement that yesterday was the anniversary of the great blizzard of 1888, when a gale piled snow which had fallen for 24 hours in drifts ranging in depth from 30 to 40 feet. For a time yesterday's storm threatened to approach the havoc wrought by the earlier blizzard, but a comparatively high temperature prevented this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECENT STORM CELEBRATED GREAT BLIZZARD OF 1888 | 3/13/1924 | See Source »

...raising havoc in University Hall. Many of the stenographers are threatening to leave if something is not done about it. But there is something more at the base of the trouble than the traditional feminine fear of the animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAT UPSETS STENOGRAPHERS--BUT NOT IN USUAL MANNER | 2/15/1924 | See Source »

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