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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That is the Smith insignium. Asheville haberdashers caught the idea quickly and their windows were soon filled with what one correspondent referred to as "copper war helmets." In Manhattan, seeking to find out where the original Brown Derby was bought, newsgatherers found no less than three hatters claiming the honor-Knox, Young and Truly Warner. The Knox company said that Candidate Smith purchased four or five of its hats per annum. All hatters look forward to a boom year, not even counting election bets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Smith's Week | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...story of a young Scotchman who has talent, honesty, and courage, but the fatal weakness of indecision. Having failed in love and in his chosen career, he goes to India to retrieve his honor. There, on the Kashmir frontier, he faces his great test and, of course redeems himself in a rather heroic but thoroughly satisfactory fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 4/21/1928 | See Source »

...prize to the victors will undoubtedly have a marked effect in awakening the competitive spirit of ranking scholars, but the honor of representing dear old Harvard or Yale on the literature team can hardly have the same appeal as being on the football squad. We have debating teams, yet they have somehow failed to trail the clouds of glory attached to athletics. It is disconcerting to have the issue confused by a material reward which represents a form of commercialization not quite in keeping with the amateur spirit so zealously preserved in other intercollegiate contests. --New York Evening Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/21/1928 | See Source »

...honor of Dr. Adolph Goldschmidt, of the University of Berlin, and visiting lecturer at Harvard on Fine Arts and the History of German Culture, and Exhibition of seventeenth century Dutch Art is now being shown at the Fogg Art Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOGG MUSEUM EXHIBITS WORKS OF DUTCH MASTERS | 4/20/1928 | See Source »

After one day's respite following the restful days of a New York vacation the Vagabond furtively returns to his former haunts, the oppressive shadow of approaching divisionals hard upon him. All honor be to those hardy souls who braved the tormenting mirage of vacation to brood over notes, and outlines beneath the gaze of the everpresent Goddess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/17/1928 | See Source »

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