Word: movements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fogg Large Lecture Room when Professor Lowes speaks on "The Lyrical Ballads." Not only does the Vagabond find the "Lyrical Ballads" interesting of themselves, but Professor Lowes treatment of this important landmark in the history of the romantic revival lends much to an understanding of the entire movement...
...druggists did last fortnight, so did many another earnest business man of other occupation. For with late summer comes the crescendo of the U. S. convention phenomena and last week the movement became acute. Going to, gathered at, departing from national conventions were druggists (wholesale, retail), chain store men, credit men, life insurance underwriters, traveling engineers, bakers, merchant-tailors and designers, bankers (men, women), radio manufacturers, accountants, safety engineers, laundry owners. Traveling at reduced railroad rates they had seen new places, participated in bridge and golf tournaments, elected officers, passed resolutions, been grave...
Important as it is to society, the program of law reform is both large and difficult and its completion will be a matter of decades rather than years. Harvard may well be proud of being represented among the leaders in the movement and the new Institute has opportunity to make a valuable contribution. It is especially fortunate to have at its head Professor Redlich, whose experience as Austrian Minister of Finance and as Professor of Public Law at the University of Vienna quality him from both the administrative and the academic point of view and make him an admirable leader...
There was a time when one could laugh at the smug hypocrisy of the Boston censors, but it becomes almost necessary to "view with alarm" a movement which threatens to wipe out the lawful study of a whole field of literature. In the welter of material which has appeared on the subject vilifying the censors, the one thing that has been overlooked is the possibility of disclosing an insidious publishers lobby. All books printed in a foreign language are admitted duty free into the country and they may sometimes compete with American publications and thus reduce the per'capita spendings...
...expert who, like Whitehead, has had a hand in the movement responsible for replacing auction bridge with contract bridge as the standard social card-game, did not attend Whitehead's convention. He, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, one of the best bridge-players in the world, has written a book † on Bridge and brought a new word into the language, "vanderbilting." Briefly, and in popular terms, you vanderbilt when you bid one club as an indication that you have three quick tricks in your hand. Though the club bid indicates the three tricks, to bid it you do not need...