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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quinn has passed. In the decade or so of his incumbency he has became almost a tradition. But traditions have a ruthless way of disappearing amid the torch lights of the innovator, and the ex-Mayor, who tried so hard to hitch Harvard to his band-wagon, will be present only on the tire covers of a few autos until they also reach the discarded stage. Thus, as Cambridge becomes industrialized, does good fellowship give way to efficiency...
...assortment there are eight volumes containing illustrations of Cruikshank's political caricatures, which are, to all effects and purposes, of equal if not superior quality to those printed in present day newspapers...
...English group, which is composed largely of Oxford and Cambridge men, is at present on a our of the United States and Canada, persecuting programs of old English folk dances and melodies...
...English Folk Dance Society which is to present old English dances for a Bostonian, audience tomorrow night exemplifies once again the present day tendency to attempt to preserve the half-forgotten practices of the past. Unfortunately, most of these movements get started too late to save many of the most interesting examples of former arts, but the present society has had the great advantage of coming into existence before folk dancing was added to the already too long list of lost arts...
...buildings of architectural and historical interest, shows to what proportions the enthusiasm for the past has grown. Nor is this movement confined only to research in the work of former times. Frequently, in the last few years, organizations have been founded to preserve the characteristic art of the present time...