Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Larger than any previous Album, although following the same general style of makeup as its predecessors, the 1929 Album contains a complete record of the activities of the Senior class during its life in Harvard College. Written histories of each separate activity, athletic and non-athletic, are supplemented by photographs of groups and individuals. The usual section is devoted to biographies and pictures of each member of the class...
After being held scoreless for five innings by Hurwitz, left-handed Rhode Island State twirler, the Harvard baseball forces came to life in the sixth inning of yesterday's game and pounded out eight runs in three frames to walk off with the ball game...
...under the shadow of Harvard's snobbery that a little irony had to be expended upon the contrast. Yet it was with a grave appearance of sincerity that he urged the graduates to study carefully the snob in order to discover from him the true rules of success in life. All the old maxims about working and waiting, study and industry, are to be thrown aside in favor of push, impudence, tuft-hunting, insolence and greed. And when challenged later about the soundness of this advice, Professor Rogers declared that he meant every...
...something of a mystery surrounding the name of Cerio too, but that is quickly dispelled by Francis Brett Young in his foreword. Mr. Young makes it quite evident that no one but Edwin Cerio could have written this book of witty, provocative and occasionally Rubelaisian episodes in the life of Capri. And Col. Fitzhugh L. Minnegerode assures us that this Cerio is known as "Tutelary genius of Capri," and Capri, in turn, is known as "Cerio's Property." Capri is also known to some as "the Mecca of Malcontents" but at all events, here are four men who feel that...
...beauty in many of these passages, and the songs which interrupt the action and contain the best poetry have other effective bits. But they are not enough to disguise the fact that the whole tenor of the piece is that of an almost unhealthy shrinking from activity and the life of the world. It is perhaps significant that the writer's favorite adjective and one which appears on nearly every page is "wan". "Thalia" is wan; it exists in a dream world of its own and lacks the vitality that is an essential part of all really great poetry...