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...hey-day last November, the league was seeking official recognition from the Student Council, undergoing many internal arguments over proper leadership, and sponsoring dances...
Without a doubt the most incessantly cute child actress of her generation, Margaret O'Brien nauseates more people than any pre-puberty screen personality since Shirley Temple in her hey-day. It's not that Miss O'Brien is a bad actress. She is a remarkably good one, with versatility, genuine feeling, and all the trimmings. The trouble lies in the basic idea of putting child actresses on the screen in big parts, an idea which leads almost inevitably to super-sanguinity, tedious tear-jerking, and a total lack of sex-appeal...
After all it is a commodity the scarcity of which is due rather to forgetfulness than to expensiveness. Since the hey-day of the great Sears Roebuck catalogues the manufacturers have realized the necessity of an efficient yet economically priced product. I beg you to urge the students through your powerful editorial columns to join in the fight to expel this insidiously constant reminder that Harvard men are petty thieves. Let us not sell our honor for ten cents. Let us have no more marking with colored crayons of objects which at one time or another have to come...
...hey-day of its career, and somewhat overcome by the exuberance of adolescence, for the club was in its twentieth year, H. D. C. produced Michael Gold's "Fiesta," a really excellent tale of Mexican provincial life. In spite of the unusual acclaim it received in Cambridge, the censors declared the play unfit for presentation in Boston, and the show was closed before it had run its allotted number of performances. This came as a great surprise to all those connected with the production, and earnest pleas were made for a reconsideration of the censorship of a play which dramatic...
...building comparatively young, as Harvard buildings go, and entirely outside the hallowed precincts of the Yard, Beck Hall has accumulated an extraordinary amount of tradition, and on more than one occasion has been saved from destruction by its sentimental associations. It saw its hey-day in the gay nineties when the more fact of residence within its walls constituted a mark of social distinction, and when many of the men who have since held high rank among Harvard graduates were associated with it. As a monument to the Harvard of twenty and thirty years ago Beck Hall will always live...