Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things could have attested the importance of the automobile in America as well as the interest that has attended the opening of the annual National Auto Show in New York this week. The significant trends and the plans of each manufacturer have been widely published and the most obscure potential purchaser is well supplied with abundant information. There is one factor, however, that is interesting on several scores for its absence rather than for its appearance, and that is the element of economy. Miles per gallon claims, so recently the source of heated rivalries, have become as unfashionable as four...
...your editorial, "Our Dancing Sons", in yesterdays' CRIMSON, you express the view that the causes of the decline in the interest in Junior Proms of recent years are chiefly two: (1) The expense; and (2) the waning social homogeneity of a class after its initial year. I think that these causes are only minor...
...Prom at some attractive ballroom? If the Gaydon Club can afford it, certainly the much larger Junior Class can afford it. It seems to me that an announcement by the 1930 Prom Committee of a good orchestra in a good ballroom would do much to revive the waning interest of the Juniors in their one big unified social endeavor. Sincerely yours, Philip Donham...
...investigation of the trend taken by recent Junior dances would no doubt have the effect of placing the 1930 dance in a state of jeopardy rather than initiating a new venture into the unstable realm of Harvard terpsichorean celebrations. Year after year there has been a steady decline in interest in the Junior dance involving natural financial embarrassment for the Committee and requiring inroads into the class funds. From the social point of view, likewise, the third year dance has tended to prove itself a white elephant, owing to the waning social homogeneity of a class, especially after its initial...
...objects of immigration restriction in this country, he brief stated as in the interest of acquiring homogeneity, like-mindedness in political affairs. In considering the economic aspects of the immigration restriction, he pointed out that altho ten years ago, employers and labor potentates were crying out for unrestricted immigration and cheap labor, now the situation is reversed and the employer, realizing that cheap labor is a liability rather than an asset, particularly in view of the increased efficiency of production of machinery, now demands excessive restriction of immigration...