Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard is so cosely bound to the past by a thousand ties that it may truthfully be said that the undergraduate, or the graduate as well, who is not at least acquainted with its history and rich traditional background, is lacking in a fundamental knowledge if not a thorough appreciation of the College. Nothing drives this home more forcibly than the annual Class Day. To the casual observer it might appear merely another day of meaningless jubilation and glamorous festivity, superficial and transitory. To the initiated, to those who can penetrate beneath the gay laughter, the forced smiles, the whirl...
Fourteen "Yesses." With kinetic directness the Council moved to attack the Vilna question-unsolved for the past eight years...
...some months past foreign speculators have been trying to force the franc up. They would profit by an upsurge, and by the downsurge sure to follow; and in the meantime France would lose immeasurably through the disruption of business occasioned by unsteady currency. Just now France sits fiscally pretty. Her trade balance is favorable. The Treasury has recently refunded advances previously made to it by the Bank of France to the amount of 900,000,000 francs. Such are the blessings which have flowed from holding the franc steady at its present value for almost two years (TIME...
...these food items American Linseed, said Chairman Robert H. Adams this spring, last year sold $17,000,000 worth. Last February the Atlantic & Pacific chain groceries alone sold 1,000,000 packages of Nucoa margarine. That explains to a great extent why American Linseed, despite the negligence of past dividends, was seriously considered worth...
QUIET CITIES-Joseph Hergesheimer-Knopf ($2.50). With a keen sense for things past, Hergesheimer revives the life of early American cities, immortalizing forgotten airs and manners in a prose of intricate beauty. His leisurely preface regrets the noise and bustle that have superseded simplicity. That done, he reverts to the thrilling intensity of Java Head, and recounts in a series of story-sketches the drama within quiet cities. In Albany Angenietje defies the customs of a stodgy Dutch community by marrying a British ensign who had survived Ticonderoga. At Natchez a steamboat card sharp turned respectable, acquired a Southern gentleman...