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...latch string obligato at the organ recital yesterday afternoon has left many persons with a distinct distaste for Harvard concerts manners. Five o'clock in the afternoon is late enough so that most of the audience should not be prevented by academic activities from prompt arrival. Other occupations may actually detain a few but the large majority at these recitals owe a discourteous and noisy tardiness to nothing more serious than pre-prandial intertia...
Besides those undetained by actuality there is the class of persons who have a valid reason for a delayed arrival at these twilight recitals. At slight hardship to this more worthy class but for great benefit to the meticulously prompt, a more rigid system of ushering seems advisable. Under the present regulations a person is allowed admittance to the main auditorium as soon as he arrives within the outer gate, no matter what is going on inside. As a consequence, the first half hour of the recital is accompanied be the incessant rattling of an archal lock and the resulting...
...should he allowed to produce their own salvation without supervision from above, a certain protection should still be allowed the younger of them from allurement that no longer tempts burnt children in the upper classes, Humanitarianism, even if unsupported by a common love of parents for offspring, should prompt the amalgamated parents of Boston ton consider the feelings of the mothers and fathers of Harvard sons. Too often this latter, less prominent group tardily discovers that an earnest devotion to the Boston side of a Harvard education cuts short the availability of Harvard itself...
Clarence True Wilson, General Secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals echoed the Anti-Saloon League's prompt exultation (TIME, Nov. 12) and said...
...most endearing of Harvard customs is the periodic discovery, by some active-minded undergraduate, that some department of some portion of the faculty is throwing its weight about a little too promiscuously--and the prompt announcement of the discovery in print. I am profoundly ignorant of the situation exposed by Mr. Breaksbread and Mr. Marlow, and quite unable to pass judgment on their exposition. Certainly, their poem is amusing and their gay malice irresistible. An editorial suggests some hesitation, on the part of the board. None, it seems to me, is called for. The production justifies itself; it voices...