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...pleasant to see so prompt and so satisfactory a review of Assistant-Dean Castle's new novel. As the reviewer summarizes it, "The flexibility of American society and the topsy-turvyness of the world in general are well expressed in "The Green Vase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of Current Advocate | 4/4/1912 | See Source »

...evening at 9 o'clock. He will read several scenes from "Macbeth" and in addition "A Sleeping Car", a farce, by William Dean Howells h.'67. The popularity of these readings is shown by the large attendance, so it behooves all those who wish to obtain seats to be prompt. The doors will be open at 8.45 o'clock and no one will be admitted after 9 o'clock. The reading will be open to members of the Union only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. COPELAND'S READING | 3/20/1912 | See Source »

...allotment. All Juniors were given the same opportunity to apply, since ample notice of the closing date was given, and the fact that delinquents are to be given a second opportunity to present applications should not entitle them to the same consideration due to those who were prompt. The committee may have provided for this but nothing in the notice of extension indicates this fact. If this policy of extending closing dates, which is so popular at present, is continued, it will tend to discourage prompt compliance with conditions and put a premium on procrastination. H. F. BROWNE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/23/1912 | See Source »

...their very nature an influence for democracy in the University, and for that very reason the cropping up of the suggestion of a clique there was unexpected. Harvard College is a democratic community in the mass of its social customs and traditions. Nothing proves this better than the prompt objection to the case in question by the University crew management...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PETTY EXCLUSIVENESS. | 10/6/1911 | See Source »

...little inquiry by Mr. Holman of those in authority and among a few alumni resulted in the prompt and cordial assurance that a few interested graduates would provide a fund ample to care for the tuition and expenses of the young man during his four years' course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Descendant of John Harvard in Freshman Class | 9/28/1911 | See Source »

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