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...Conrad's poems are good, very good, and give a more than adequate answer to such sceptics as hold that Harvard's education of criticism and classicism will quell the romantic ability of even an undergraduate. Of the four poems, Ex Libris shows, perhaps, the best technique, the nicest imagery, but discrimination is difficult. It is to be hoped that the Advocate will later run the Bowdoin Prize Essays if they approach the excellence of Mr. Conrad's work...

Author: By C. C. Abbott, | Title: FRESHMAN NUMBER OF ADVOCATE IS REVIEWED BY C. C. ABBOTT '28 | 10/3/1931 | See Source »

...might seem, two factors lent it credence. Last week Diamond Match prepared for a great capital reorganization. Causes of this were: 1) unfavorable taxation features in its present charter; 2) the lack of marketability in its highly priced, closely held stock. To stockholders the reorganization is one of the nicest gifts of an almost giftless year. For each share of common they will receive four new shares of common, five of participating preferred, a $25 cash bonus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Diamond Deal? | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...Negro really is. Of course we realize that we can't do without the Negro here in the South but you northerners have no idea at all what they are really like. Then too, I happened to know of a very sad case where one of our nicest young men did kill himself and a mulatto girl. Perhaps Mr. Wall had the same case in mind when he wrote the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1930 | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...microphone and speak his name and State. There was a banquet at which they formally met last year's winner, Wilber Brotherton Huston of Olympia, Wash., M. I. T. sophomore. There was also a dance to which the Edisons invited 52 of New Jersey's nicest young ladies. "Alabama" picked out the one he wanted from a newspaper picture the day before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Extremely Bright Boys | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

After some 30 minutes of this. Bruin Churchill gradually realized that he was merely pawing the air. When his elation began to wear off he sat down sulkily, stalked a few minutes later from the House. Other debaters were merely perfunctory. In the nicest sort of British way, without a division, the Act passed second reading in the Commons by acclaim, next night was acclaimed through third reading, went to the House of Lords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Career of a Treaty | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

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