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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, it is not too tactful to put everything off until the last second. The average male has absolutely no idea how his fair guests look forward to these Yale-Harvard games. While week-ending in New York last Wednesday the Vagabond met no less than thirteen girls who confided in him their secret. It seems even at that early date they had not been able to touch food for twenty four hours. And with all, their dates were only with Yale boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/16/1929 | See Source »

After the rather disasterous defeat by Yale last year the season does not look very promising as far as ready material goes. But with the return of J. F. Solano '30 after a year's absence, and with a number of likely candidates in the heavy-weight divisions there should be possibilities of a creditable team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLING SQUAD TO HOLD MEETING MONDAY | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

...goal towards which all educators of the modern type seem to be atriving is the development of a close relationship between the professor and the individual student. The adherents to this school of thought must have mingled feelings when they look at the statistics of some of the larger courses given in Harvard College which reveal the extent of mass production in education in its most massive aspects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

...bring up the subject she can easily deny (and properly) having seen the pornographic exhibit and put the onus on me, and my efforts at explaining that this was not the usual sort of picture for you to print, or me to look at, will be increasingly difficult if she claims not to have noticed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...that both contribute to the catastrophe, and the second is far stronger. The Victorians are satirized with a savagery that defeats itself, for the reader begins to protest that it must be overdone. The tone of these chapters is like one of George's own remarks, thus reported: " 'Now, look at these simian bipeds,' George pursued, pointing to an inoffensive pair of lovers . . . 'more foul, more deadly, more incestuously blood-lustful . . .!' " Throughout the early chapters Author Aldington seems to be pointing at inoffensive people and gratuitously calling them incestuous. There may be reason for dissecting a diseased corpse; there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An English Tragedy | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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