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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will be refreshments and music, and a ventriloquist or magician will furnish entertainment. In addition several prominent Harvard athletes will be present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas at P. B. H. | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

...burden of lifting the average of the present issue above the level of discreditable mediocrity falls entirely upon the efforts of Mr. Walter Edmonds and Mr. B. N. Parker Jr., who, with a short story and a poem respectively, redeem the sheets from the come-on-fellows-and-lets-get-together standard of prep school journalism. Certainly only the most desperate editorial crisis could induce the Vindex or Horae Scholasticae to print Mr. V. A. Brown's maudlin sentimentality or Mr. R. S. Minturn's epic of life-force agonies under any other head than that of humor. If your...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEEBE FINDS CURRENT NUMBER OF ADVOCATE LITTLE ABOVE MEDIOCRE | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

...subject is "Can Race Prejudice be abolished?" The Harvard speakers upholding the affirmative side of this question are J.K. Fairbank '29 and H. M. Fox, Sp. Their colored opponents will present the negative point of view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLORED ORATORS TO DEBATE LIBERAL CLUB IN VACATION | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

...during the last few years to divert some of the flood at its source have had a tangible result. In contrast to the lean days of the past century when needy universities beat the publicity drums far and wide to attract customers to their displays of educational wares, the present attitude is distinctly diminuendo. College is a waste of time for many students; for a purely business career it has few practical uses; those who come for social reasons are an unmitigated evil. Such statements have become familiar to the reading public, and for the first time their sponsors have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIGH TIDE | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

...evidence of an earlier one. The mother of this lad wants his father to take him under his wing, and the play revolves about the point of whether or not the father shall do this. If he does shall the mother stay with him too? Hardly, thinks the present provider of his bliss. The son, who until this time has led a cloistered existence is attracted by the mistress of his father, and there...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/18/1928 | See Source »

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