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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard can, without assuming a holier-than-thou attitude, safely claim a unique place musically among American universities. Not only is there the almost wearingly long catalogue of Boston's musical events to interest it: there are the concerts presented specifically for Harvard, that find an increased audience each year with their return. The University is in the happy position of a clearing-house for two factors necessary in all culture: the willingness of donors to present significant works, and the readiness of a public to receive and appreciate such gifts...
...Harvard Economic Society, started ten years ago as the Committee on Economic Research, has come to occupy a significant although unobtrusive place among the university's diversified activities in the economic field. Directed by a board of trustees which brings together both professors in the Department of Economics and the Business School and representative men of affairs, the Society has done much to develop closer cooperation between the academic and the practical spheres of economic activity. Its "Review of Economic Statistics" and "Weekly Letter" enjoy a limited but ever-increasing circulation among business men who desire to have some greater...
Score--Dartmouth 1922 21; Harvard 1988 0, Touchdowns--Wilson 3, Points after touchdowns--Collins 3, by place kicks. Referee--A. R. Ayer, Colby. Umpire--R. M. Sanborn, New Hampshire. Head linesman--M. Gulian, Brown, field Judge--C. C. McCarthy, Georgetown. Time--four 15-minute periods...
...visiting professor is now at Munich, where he teaches American culture and civilization. Before he took that post he had held the place of professor of German at Cornell during 189-93, at the University of Chicago for the years 1893-1906, and at Brown...
Taylor knew other whites. In a dive, he sold them opium at $1 a paper. Another place was a bowling-alley. When one bowler saw him bunching the pins for the next man, Taylor had to leave through a window. Life was not all work. The white boys had a game "Stray Goose." One boy ran, until caught and pummeled. Taylor helped. When he was 16 he put on a cowboy's costume and strutted to a dance. The girls were nicer than Big Maude's. He began to dream and want money. He told his mother what...