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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets. He and Dr. Worcester will discuss that plan today. The success of this suggestion is necessarily conditioned by the amount of interest shown in the project among the undergraduates. It is of course purposeless to artificially stimulate such interest for that would mean simply a repetition of the recent Memorial Hall fiasco. But it is worth while to point out that into Administration must depend upon material evidence of a desire for club tables and a University dining hall, that it cannot go ahead on mere guesswork that the interest is there...
...presenting coupon books at the H. A. A. office, students may get tickets to all remaining hockey games in the Arena this season at a fifty cent reduction, the H. A. A. announced yesterday. This will mean that Yale and Dartmouth tickets will cost only $1.70 while all other tickets may be obtained...
...plantation rubber. To maintain that price the Stevenson Plan became effective in 1919. When rubber falls below 42? growers must curtail production; when it mounts above, they may produce to capacity. The Stevenson Plan prevents loss to growers, but does not restrict their profits. And their profits may mean loss to rubber consumers, who are thus forestalled...
...Martha, I'll tell you what . . If you'll take the letter, I'll let you ride around the block on my tricycle. . . I'll let you ride around twice. . . Think of that! . . You can ride around trice on my twicycle . . I mean twice on my tricycle. . Well, then, I'll let you come to my circus next Saturday free, and its going to be ten pins for everybody else. . . I'll give you half this piece of chewing gum. . . And two of these keys and this, whistle and I'll let you whittle with my knife some...
Vachel Lindsay is a poet without art; he is an inspired poet without art; he has inspiration without taste. Not tasteless is the inspiration that has Vachel Lindsay, but I mean that his inspiration, the song on his lips, is not restrained by dictates of taste. Not restrained at all is his inspiration, not by question of taste at all, not by question of art at all, not by question of what-is-absurd-and-what-is-not-absurd at all. For absurd often is his inspiration, not dictated, no, nor emendated, not yet always ill-fated, for children...