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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polish of Little Use in Bond Peddling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN "MOIST," ACCORDING TO ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF YALE RECORD | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

...rather nebular conception of the so-called "Harvard manner" troubles us even more. Why, we query, should a man act like a gentleman in college? Or, for that matter, why shouldn't he? A person's polish, blithely spattered upon a well-thumbed pedigree, will hardly serve him in peddling bonds. Wherefor then, all this poifect gent stuff? Is it, too, an adaptation to environment? Perhaps, but since the wholesome prostitution of "good names" has become a disturbing realization to most of the Beacon Street element there must be something beneath the surface. The Harvard man must actually have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN "MOIST," ACCORDING TO ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF YALE RECORD | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

...International Law, before the Massachusetts branch of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Associations Except for the doubtful precedent of The Hague, which proved to be not even an annoyance to the activities of Mars, the League has been forced to learn solely through its own mistakes. The Russo-Polish War, the Upper Silesla affair, the massacre at Smyrna the occupation of Corfu the Geneva protocol the Greco-Bulgarian frontier altercation, and the squabble during last year between Brazil and Spain have been the annual causes of "I told you sols" from the irreconcilables of post-bellum days: largely because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BY DEGREES | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...them a majority of decisions in the past, and the team this year is chosen from the students of all the English Universities, instead of from the undergraduates of one university. In the face of this opposition the University team has been working especially hard to polish off its style in prepartaion for the forensic battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE DEBATERS CHOSEN TO FACE ENGLISH RIVALS | 10/27/1927 | See Source »

Next Saturday the Harvard players are doomed to being outdressed by the visiting band, wearing full military regalia, and boasting a seven foot drum. Harvard is content to forego the brass buttons and gold braid now that its representatives have added the polish of courtesy to the tunes that they have always rendered faithfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SATURDAY'S HIGH NOTE | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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