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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been suggested in these columns several times that Harvard men are not always good hosts, since they prefer going to the Copley Plaza rather than entertaining rival visitors at the Union. One might point to the last Princeton Triangle Club Dance as a good reason for this. Surely, if the Union cannot succeed in arranging a more orderly dance by the use of a program and thus eliminating this obnoxious "cutting in". Harvard men cannot be too severely criticized for not attending such functions...
...comb Riley to men of the fame of Barbusse and Wells. Again, about a million American citizens thought enough of him to vote for him for the highest office in their gift. Now we reach a question of Americanism. Personally, my Americanism is of such a kind that I prefer to think that these million citizens were not disloyal, were not friends of a felon, and followers of a mischief maker, but that they were friends of a fine old man and believers in a type of collectivism, which is not popular in this country, but towards which...
...been awarded to Cotrell & Leonard Co., of Albany. This will be the only firm officially recognized by the committee. All gowns purchased are absolutely new, and made from individual measurements; in addition arrangements will be made for renting outfits by the week or by the month to Seniors who prefer that method...
...pleasure to the normal human being. If a person is able to get satisfaction out of something that does not bring satisfaction to the average man, and is not able to enjoy something that this average man enjoy, he is in a sense, abnormal. If this is nobility I prefer to be happy in my ignobility...
...trouble with this round-about method of checking corruption and waste is that it offers a temptation to those of our newspapers who prefer to create excitement rather than to publish facts. No sooner is a committee formed to probe affairs of public interest than the newspapers prepare for an orgy of "startling disclosures", for blazing headlines containing the names of men in the highest ranks of public and private life. For an expectant reading-public there are graphic accounts of untold wealth secured by graft, of prosperous men off to prison, via the hastily called Grand Juries. All this...