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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furthermore, Harvard is doubly appropriate as host for this meeting. Probably because of a traditional dislike of proselyting she has in the past been too prone to let relations with the preparatory school become highly informal and indefinite. The kind of relationship fostered by the Masters Meeting, lacking any element of the sentimental graduate influence, and based wholly on a fundamental community of educational interest should be strengthened and encouraged, more emphatically so because Harvard, by virtue of her wealth and enlightened leadership offers in its tutorial system and its implications much which is of unusual importance to the Headmaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FOCAL POINT | 2/12/1927 | See Source »

...longer does a good, old fashioned, out and out murder whet the public appetite; we must have infinite complications--simple enough to be comprehended, but spicy--everything from Pig Women to perjury. Even the "eternal triangle" which seemed as permanent as a Platonic idea, is losing its saver. Let us have more pepper in the sauce. Let us make each breakfast when we read the morning papers a 100 per cent Roman-American holiday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/10/1927 | See Source »

...Vagabond the unfortunate aspect of this movement, is that its spirit is being applied to life in general. Of a recent work of modern music a well-known critic has written. "It is a work of discord and cacophonies; as ugly and as true as life itself." Let us all smile together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/9/1927 | See Source »

Vexed while traveling by certain citizens of Erie, Pa., Greeley broke forth in the Tribune; "Let Erie be avoided by all travelers until grass shall grow in her streets and until her piemen in despair shall move to some other city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...rifle." Horace was kind and patient with this woman whom he addressed as "Mother." She kept cows which "Mother says shall never be killed while she lives, because they have given milk to her children. They fall down sometimes and want to die, but Mother will not let them and keeps a man to lift them up and care for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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