Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thereby lost a certain richness in its culture which comes only when the people have sufficient inherent artistic talent to produce it. To be sure there have been the cowboy songs of the West, and the ballads of the Kentucky mountains, but there has been nothing which the public could seize as its own, as a part of its everyday life. The obvious answer for the dearth of folk art in America is of course that the country is too large for a single folk lore that is all-inclusive; and also that the average American person is too mechanical...
...girls made a spectacular on trance. The lights were lowered to the accompaniment of disappointed boos, a hush came over the audience, and two dozen Central Massachusetts mermaids pranced to the water's edge to the tune of a liquid waltz played over the public address system. Twenty-four blue-clad forms dived in as one and glided into compelling formations. The one that excited most interest and speculation was the cartwheel, in which the fair ones split into groups of three. Two would tug at the legs of a third companion in what seemed to be an effort...
...Government; David Worcester, '27, instructor in English; David T. W. McCord '21, Executive Sec- retary of the Harvard Fund; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Professor of English; James R. Brewster '25, Director of the Film Service; Theodore Spencer, assistant professor of English; Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking; Ernest J. Simmons, assistant professor of English; and Theodore Morrison '23, assistant professor of English...
...only a logical outgrowth of this attitude that the press retaliated by arousing prejudice against the University. However, this was not prompted by mercenary motives but was rather the result of misunderstanding. Harvard shunned publicity like a temperamental movie queen, and found, in so doing, that it was inviting animosity. But with the appointment of Mr. Ryan, conditions steadily began to improve. He saw to it that the press was received well and given the necessary information. For the past few years, his work has been taken for granted; but then it involved a radical change in, policy, and later...
Thus, Mr. Ryan's achievements were clearly of much greater importance than merely informing the public of Harvard sports. Consequently, now that has an opportunity to view his accomplishments it becomes plain that--seen in the perspective of recent Harvard history--his services have been invaluable...