Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Holbrook admitted that there had been considerable discussion recently whether the present Junior Class should continue the custom of giving a large dance in Memorial Hall during the spring. At a meeting yesterday afternoon at which G. L. Lewis, Jr. '30, vice-president of the class, J. W. Potter '30, class secretary, and A. R. Sweezy '29, chairman of last year's Junior Dance Committee, were present, it was decided that the balance of argument against the dance and in favor of it could be adjusted best by a direct appeal to the members of the class concerned...
...majority of Professor Babbitt's anathema is heaped upon "the new extensions of the principles of individual choice" and "the allowance of latitude in the individual." To the average reader, the very principle here implied would seem to be one of the strongest signs of health in Harvard at present. It is undoubtedly due to its presence and influence that a member of the faculty has been able so to criticize his university from within its very walls and command attention not wholly condemnatory. Cornell...
...forms of the musical romance, that built about the love-story of a composer would seem to be the easiest to present and the most successful. Such, unfortunately, is not the case. The latest attempt, on the boards at the Majestic, entitled "White Lilacs," a romance with music, based on the life of Frederic Chopin, has all the failings and few of the fortes of the genre. That is to say, one does not enjoy fully either Chopin's music, or Herr Johannsen's play: the first because the music was almost wholly written for the pianoforte, not orchestra with...
This is not done at Harvard. Perhaps the first obstacle in the way is the official fear that information may be mishandled in the presentation, and the conviction that the surest preventative is to withold information. There may also exist the belief that official disbursement of publicity material will be interpreted as the activity of a university anxious to find itself on the front pages as often as possible. But it is definite lack of appreciation of the meaning and value of properly controlled publicity that is assuredly present in circles of Harvard authority...
...present plan for the establishment of six Houses leaves four masterships still vacant. If they can be filled as competently as the first two are assured of being, a primary obstacle to the recanalimtion of Harvard life will have been removed...