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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard oarsmen, however, should show the results of two year of consistent rowing policy. For some time past each unsuccessful season has meant a sudden shift in coaches, with results more discouraging as the inevitable consequence. With Coach Stevens as head of a new regime the 1921 varsity crews made a very favorable showing against the powerful Yale crews at New London Under the same system of instruction progress has been consistent. Graduates and undergraduates may rest assured that whatever the final outcome may be of this afternoon's bitter struggle, they can shout lustily at the end: "Well rowed...
These are specific examples of municipal accomplishments, but their achievement has meant the curtailment of profit and privilege for certain traction and utility groups as well as the newspapers owned, controlled, subsidized or amenable to them. Consequently, every statement of the mayor, no matter how buttressed with facts, has been distorted or garbled or ridiculed. But greater than the power of the newspapers and selfish corporate groups is the power of public opinion formed by a day-to-day observation of actual conditions and always dependable at the polls. This may be a consolation for the man who would enter...
...dark young man, attired in pajamas of kingfisher-blue silk, smoking, with mannered nonchalance, a brown cigaret, was reclining among the pillows of a luxurious seabed. He responded amiably to their questions. Native American music . . . what did they mean by that? Most people, of course, meant the banal, monotonous ki-yiing of the American Indians?an absurd misconception. Indian music came from Asia. It is in no respect native. The music the rhythms of which are implicit in the movement of modern U. S. life has never been written. . . . Will jazz be its medium? . . . Perhaps...
...average price obtained throughout the year by one well-known con pany was only about 18? per Ib. for its rubber; and, as many companies could not produce at this price, it meant that within a short time most of the plantations would again become jungle. If this had happened, tens of millions of people in this country would have been deprived of the use of automobiles. If these companies had gone into the hands of receivers, there is little doubt that the American consumers of rubber would have bought up these plantations at a cost which would have been...
WILBUR THE HAT-Hendrik Van Loon-Boni, Liveright ($3.50). Wilbur, a hat blown into Kingdom Come, found himself drifting down one of the principal waterways of that monarchy accompanied by a certain cricket. Wilbur saw a pile of debris ("The ancient Gods," said Cricket, "who had meant so much for so long that people could not let them be sold for junk"), the greatest of the world's builders, a whittling man (Stradivari), a place that smelled of onions (the Acropolis), a resigned figure absolutely alone on an island the size of a dollar (Jesus Christ). Irritated with...