Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SHOW-OFF?The American, whose capacity for self-advertising quite swallows his capacity for perfecting the advertised product...
Aspdin named his material "Portland cement" because of its resemblance to a type of building stone then commonly quarried on the Isle of Portland. Although the inventor's process has subsequently been improved upon in many ways, the name he gave the product has remained unchanged...
...show of the Pi Eta Club will be the product of many minds, instead of one as has been the custom heretofore, and its sponsors expect the show to be correspondingly better. Of the five or six manuscripts submitted, the plot will be taken from the book of Howard Finney '26. This will form the backbone of the play. A large part of the "patter" as playwrights have it, will be taken from the book of J. S. Murphy '25. Also the high lights of several other manuscripts will be incorporated, as far as is possible without destroying by abridgement...
...University and the student body, the subtle charge of "cleverness" carries a distinctly derogatory implication. Instead of higher learning Harvard is accused of producing "hot house results", of developing "point-of-pencil knowledge", and high technique in the art of passing examinations. The Old Dog says of the unfinished product: "Most of these fellows were ready with opinions on any conceivable subject. If they had none, they were able to make them up on the spot...
Political wrangling at Harvard is no sudden by product of these disordered days, but has a long genealogy, embedded in traditional demonstrations, surrounded by anecdotes at least interesting if not true. CRIMSON files for years long since passed into the anonymous classification of "the days when" reveal an astouding partisan spirit, an intense and furious interest in all things political...