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The art of painting is on the decline--possibly, we ought to say passe. When the product of long hours is not beautiful and succeeds only in being grotesquely funny, youthful critics roll non-chantly in their cradles and the older ones take an easy turn in the grave. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/27/1932 | See Source »

These concrete instances may be indicative of the fact that Harvard as a whole has begun to look on football purely as a game. It is, perhaps, an extension to the spectator of the new tendency to accept the English ideal of playing the game for the game's sake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL AT HARVARD | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Finally, in doing away with the Prom it seems as if the Junior Class officers have put themselves in the rather precarious position of being "passe", for why bother with officers if there is nothing for them to do? Rather than slip into the senility and discard of the previous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy Days are Here Again | 2/21/1930 | See Source »

With two such stars as Ada May and Clariborue Foster on a bill, Seniors recovering from divisional, and underclassmen wearied with the reading period, could do no better than drop into the Keith Memorial tonight or tomorrow to see for themselves that stage and musical comedy stars who go on...

Author: By D. M. K., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

The brilliant color of modern university life seems to be fading from a flaming crimson into the more delicate mauve of solidarity. Like opera girls and Memorial Hall dining room, the old traditions are becoming passe, for now the carefree Lothario who whisks by in his shining roadster must give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERE COMES THE BRIDE | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

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