Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dance will begin at 10 and will probably end at 2 o'clock. Two orchestras have been engaged to furnish continuous music. Jack Wright with his College Orchestra will try to better the work of his professional colleague, Sid Reinherz, who will conduct his orchestra in person...
...requests for information. The most unusual specimen of this type was received last week addressed to the "Harvard Lore of You". This momentarily baffled even the omniscient mind of the Information Desk until the meaning was made clear by an inquiry concurring the Harvard Law Review made by a person with a strong New England accent. The letter was from a prominent firm of lawyers and it is supposed that the mistake came in dictation on a too literal acceptance of super fluonser...
...Theodore Roosevelt win while at Harvard?" "Is Yiddish a language or a dialect?" "Where is Walla Walla?" One of the most, unusual requests came as a the result of Professor De Wolfe's return to Belgium after completing his lecture course of the first half year. The person inquiring was under the impression that Professor De Wolfe had returned to see Cardinal Mercier before the death of the Belgian prelate and wished to know if he had arrived in time...
Especially does he so inquire if he is an artist--not the mental midget of pseudo-aesthetic tendencies, but the occasional person who wants to create rather than criticize, to build rather than to fresco other people's buildings with the rococo delineations of his embryonic criticism. He is mentally tired. He has learned that better writers, painters, musicians than he can ever be have not only preceded him, but have left their art for the catalogues of word epicures and the text books of higher criticism. The flames do or do not leap high in his fire place...
...offered to any individual case. Some people bear the lead injections without serious disturbance, while others show evidence of poisoning so promptly that the treatment has to be abandoned. . . . "The gist of the matter is, then, that we have a treatment which brings at least temporary relief to one person in five who takes it, but that the remedy is extremely dangerous; that the drug is difficult to prepare, impossible to keep, and therefore for the present must be handled only by those who are familiar with its use. This means that all patients who desire to avail themselves...