Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stop, Look, and Listen...
...take a night off to listen to emotional outbursts of over-footballized epthusiasts? And why follow the mob, sit in a crowded room, and absorb the palpitating heart beats of the freshman sitting next to you, merely to hear the rather boring remarks about the necessity of winning the Harvard game this week-end? We were beaten by Yale last week and we may be beaten by Harvard on Saturday. But why get excited about...
...chatty memoirs of actors never fail to interest. People can always stop long enough to listen to gilded figure, usually seen only across footlights, unbending and telling the juicler details of the strange, luxuriously vagabonding existence that actors lead. This narrative of Mr. Barrymore's is, although not at all literary, among the best of the type; racy, gossippy, adequately frank and revealing...
...problem extends beyond the somewhat academic audiences who read names of Bach and Mozart engraved upon the pillars of Symphony Hall as they listen to the concise and logical eloquence of our forensic champions. There have been Debating Unions and Debating Councils, there have been amalgamations and divisions, there has been everything possible except debating. The latest move has been the incorporation of the Debating Union with the Harvard Union, accomplished last spring. Few undergraduate moves of recent years have been more justly applauded, but even in this house of still born dreams and institutions, few have proved more barren...
...answer is obvious, John Harvard dug, and well, he went back to his chair before University Hall and mused in economics. At least he doesn't have to look at the wealthy lady's portals, he wanted for his own. And he has the new bell to listen to Affairs might be much worse...