Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attitude of the Harvard man is as difficult to make clear as it is to excuse. His place on the collegiate ladder either approximates the top or the bottom. There is a clear alignment in this difference of rating. On one side are Harvard people, on the other a majority of the rest of the world, hardly a satisfactory division of opinion. But the fact remains that while he is theoretically inclined to view with disfavor such a position, he is quite as likely to practice not a little pride in it. The paradox is easily understandable and as closely...
Gawky, homely, his weighty trunk swaying upon long parabolic legs, he first barnstormed the rural counties as a burlesque "Little Eva" in a golden wig on a ladder to heaven. He turned yeast salesman, then ward politician. His grin and "Well, now, folks?" won him a larger majority than Indianapolis gave to Novelist Booth Tarkington when the two ran together (one for Recorder and the other for the Legislature) on the ticket...
...gentlemen met before, in Philadelphia, and each would have been much happier were the other dear charmer away. Their second encounter proved more interesting, in its preliminary bombast, than the first; due to the burst of note-writing proclivities on the part of each. Now both proceed along the ladder of fame, one downwards, the other up, each to remain in the public memory as long as is customary for fallen idols: for, to assume the pessimistic attitude and to predict the inevitable, each will be a fallen idol in a surprisingly short time, and he whose arm extended aloft...
...dawn in Elsinore, Denmark, where Hamlet saw his father's ghost, a young British newspaper correspondent excitedly climbed aboard a small tugboat. He, Philip Gibbs of the London Daily Chronicle, was late in covering his assignment. Finally he reached the good ship Hans Egede, scrambled up a rope ladder. On deck, newspapermen talked about the North Pole in polyglot tongues. Mr. Gibbs introduced himself to a man with a heavy nose and queer eyes, who said: "Come and have some breakfast...
...Henderson '28 and R. M. Whitemore '30 will give piano selections, followed by two numbers by the Mandolin Club. The Gold Coast Orchestra playing two popular pieces. "Moonlight on the Ganges" and "Climbing up the Ladder of Love," and as a more serious conclusion Meditation from "Thais" arranged by John W. Green '28, should provide a high light in the evening's program...