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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once unshakable bond connecting Law students, midnight oil, and lack of time for activities has been at least slightly loosened by the injection of a competitive key into the dry labors of the men from the North. The old dogma of the graduate's dull life may still hold firmly, but a Harvard-Yale debate by these same graduates gives an opening for its refutation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOUBLE-CROSSING THE BAR | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

...speaking of one's winter wardrobe, it is much better, to say "I'm going to send a line to my man," that "I'm going in to the tailor's." Prices, above all, should be estimated in pounds, shillings, and pence, and be aired in at least every third sentence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men of 53 Years Ago Reckoned by Contemporary as Too Well Dressed--Crimson Sets Styles for Freshmen | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...progress of a given piece of music. The fact that the time and place are such as to cast a general flavor of informality over the organ recitals in Appleton Chapel is no excuse for yesterday's catch-as-catch-can type of entry. There is always at least one usher at these musicals for the purpose of dispensing programs. His duties might well be extended to include the detaining of late comers without the door until the number being played at the time of their arrival is concluded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...loose sack or a very close-fitting cut-away-- there is nothing meaner than a mean between two elegant extremes. The waistcoat should be cut high in the neck and long in the waist; a single breast makes display enough. Trousers, it is needless to say, should be at least eighteen inches in diameter. Black frocks have been worn for some time of an afternoon. Their days are numbered. The Jews have got hold of them of late; they have become rather tigerish; and blue, reaching fully to the knee, are now considered fully as good form -- two or three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men of 53 Years Ago Reckoned by Contemporary as Too Well Dressed--Crimson Sets Styles for Freshmen | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...team. The 158-pound class has been dropped, and 155 and 165-pound classes have been added. Three pounds overweight are still allowed. As only Captain Joseph Lifrak '29, J. H. Burns '30, and Nathaniel Warner '30 of last year's championship teams have returned, at least five new men will be wrestling regularly in meets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAPPLERS HOLD FIRST OFFICIAL ASSEMBLAGE | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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