Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English Folk Dance Society which is to present old English dances for a Bostonian, audience tomorrow night exemplifies once again the present day tendency to attempt to preserve the half-forgotten practices of the past. Unfortunately, most of these movements get started too late to save many of the most interesting examples of former arts, but the present society has had the great advantage of coming into existence before folk dancing was added to the already too long list of lost arts...
...line with the greater importance of the graduate departments that Cambridge has become a different kind of place. It is no longer a suburb of moderate size, not easy of access from the neighboring city. Harvard Square is eight minutes by subway from the heart of Boston. Old Cambridge is part of the metropolis. Its aspect has changed, and is rapidly changing more and more...
This drift may well cause anxiety to the lover of Harvard College. To the Graduate Schools it forbodes no ill. A great city is a congenial and indeed a stimulating site for professional teaching and scientific research. But a metropolis does not readily foster a college. Is the old Harvard to stay? Is Harvard to remain a place where boys will grow into youths and men under the influences and in the surroundings which mean so much--almost everything--to us? Or will the College decay as the professional departments grow? Will the only colleges of the old type that...
...prospect might well seem ominous to us who love the old times and associations, were it not for the great step which has just been taken in the Housing Plan. Here has come a new element which promises to preserve the College--not only preserve it-but vivify and strengthen...
...old favorites are passing. Harvard students are exchanging their long cherished, or long endured, recordings of tunes of by-gone days for recent hits, through an offer now being made by the Victor company. An investigation of records being turned in at Harvard Square music stores reveals that "When You and I Were Young Maggie" and "Silver Threads Among the Gold" lead the list of exchanges, appearing in greater numbers than any other single recordings...