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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Success for any human undertaking rests primarily upon the quality of the men involved. An amidst the scurry for improvement, Professor Henderson's advice to mark time until the human element has caught up with the mechanical and theoretical rings true like an age-old maxim. Certainly the real significance of this most recent proposal is the fact that in it lies the true foundation for the successful realization of the aims of countless new educational devices...
Some of the old talent in the group was lost at graduation last year, but the prospects of new men from the fall competitions lead the officers to expect a show which will in every respect equal former ones...
Following its usual policy of trading in its old airplane annually and buying a new one, the Harvard Flying Club has just purchased a new "Travel-air" biplane. This airplane, which is powered with a Wright J-6 five-cylinder engine, will be delivered to the Flying Club on Wednesday at the factory in Wichita, Kansas. It will be given in charge of R. B. Bell '30, vice-president of the club, and Max field Parrish, who are planning to fly it to Boston Muller Field in Revere will be the temporary quarters of the new biplane until hangar accommodation...
Grant Mitchell is one of those actors who are perennially the same, who year in and year out, choose the same sort of ingratiating part for themselves, and when a new one fails to appear, and they find themselves faced with joblessness, set to work and revive an old one. Sometimes they make huge hits that way. More often they fail miserably. And still more often they turn out to be the kind of undistinguished, evenly flowing, slightly more than mediocre production that wended its quiet way across the proscenium of the Plymouth Theatre last night...
Some conclusions of her long, full life (she is now 67) include: "I prefer their [moderns'] frankness to the old hypocrisy. . . . New York did not impress me. . . . [Lily Langtry was] the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. . . . I cannot pretend to be a judge of my own beauty . . . . When 'they' write my obituary notice, it should be the record of a woman who feverishly designed many things for the betterment of human lives. . . . I regret the passing of the horse...