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Former upheavals that have served to disturb the equanimity of Harvard's fertile backyard soil have at least been compensated for in part by such epic discoveries as that of the Harvard plates, dear to the heart of old graduates and more recent wives. But unless some former treasures of the Med. Fac. or the buried miscellanies and Imperial testimonies of similar secret societies be the result of the present activity, we can look for ward to little but the plebian and depressingly progressive activity of white gloved gesticulating yard oops and the existence of red and green lights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DETOUR" | 9/21/1929 | See Source »

...corporation collection, and the original document division, are severally devoted. The Aldrich Room, founded on the collection of finance material assembled by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, forms the center for the provision of material on banking, finance, and the tariff, covering both the distant and recent past; while it also serves as a reading room to those who would study at leisure the development of the United States in these lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAKER LIBRARY IS MONUMENT OF TWO DECADES GROWTH | 9/19/1929 | See Source »

...corporation collection constitutes an assembly of original printed material relating to the multitude of business corporations of the country. While it contains the most recent material upon the business life of the country, such as the current annual reports of American corporations, it also aims to supply data upon the history of such institutions through the collection of older printed documents--annual reports, and the like--relating to the evolution of present-day business units...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAKER LIBRARY IS MONUMENT OF TWO DECADES GROWTH | 9/19/1929 | See Source »

Penal Code of the State of New York a section (No. 1530) providing for the closure of a public nuisance. There is a recent decision by the State Court of Appeals that a speakeasy is a public nuisance. Also in New York are Grover Aloysius Whalen, the Police Commissioner; Maurice Campbell, the local U. S. Prohibition Administrator; and a tidal sentiment against Prohibition.* Tall, blue-eyed, cinematically handsome, fastidiously dressed. Administrator Campbell rose to Major in the Army Ordnance Corps during the War. For three years (1919-22) he was a cinema director for Famous Players-Lasky (Oh, Lady, Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Buck-Passing | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...fully appreciate the gravity of the present situation. Nevertheless I think it is a mistake to conclude that civil war will result from the recent clashes. . . . The Government is strong enough to prevent what the people are fearing from occurring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Pfrimer Deflated | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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