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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Measured by that test, this is the most successful Lampoon of them all. And perhaps, as the pendulum called progress swings slowly to and fro, there will come a time when touchiness will disappear and the Lampoon can be flerce and angry and satiric--and be regarded, nevertheless, not as a menace but as a joke
Most large department stores today have adopted training programs. These programs vary with the experience of the management and with the company's ideas on progress. The training period covers from a month or six weeks to two years. In the shorter courses the training is intensive and in the longer ones it is combined with actual store practice. In each case the attempt is made to instruct the trainee in various selling and non-selling functions and to give a certain amount of practice in the various phases of Merchandising and Management work...
...best singing is done in a prolog, related to the text only by its tunes, in which Helen Morgan, whose voice is later apparently heard issuing from the lips of Laura La Plante, sings "My Bill" and "I Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Of the progress of the showboat, Cotton Palace, down the river, Director Harry Pollard has made a picturesque, oldfashioned, tedious melodrama, full of conventional photography and exaggerated acting. Magnolia (Laura La Plante), an awkward young woman with a long jaw, elopes with Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut) in a rowboat. Later she becomes a great...
...another column of this issue of the CRIMSON there is an account of the arrangements now in progress for the proper housing and correlation of the valuable libraries of poetry belonging to the University. Few institutions can boast such completeness as that afforded by the Norton gifts. Practically all the important, and a great deal of the lesser, verse written in English since Elizabethan times are here represented. With this material as a background the collection of modern verse left the University by Miss Lowell should combine with the books bought by the Gray fund to give Harvard a poetry...
...Austria's progress is blocked," he said, "by a political tension, for much of which the present Government is held responsible, although unjustly. Long-continued agitations and accumulated hatred, which so far as concerns my person would be bearable, have also without reason been cast on my priestly office and my Church...