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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gentle Grafters. An attractive damsel, under personal supervision of a wicked old baggage, would exploit the modern business man, remain a nice girl withal. Artfully, she barters little tokens of self-respect for ten dollar bills, dinners, gowns, invitations to the country. As it must, under even the most liberal credit system, there comes a day of reckoning. The poor girl has but one asset. She surrenders her virtuous distinction. A little moth, a little flame, a little singe-it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat. Katharine Alexander makes it more interesting than it deserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 15, 1926 | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...bough. Unlike Horace who was quite selfish when his famous tree fell, the CRIMSON worries more about the tree than the fact that its fall hurt no one but the reputation of him, who in the dark of night, saw fit to saw the Ibis tree. Such gestures should remain the prerogative of the insane--perhaps they have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CUT DIRECT | 11/11/1926 | See Source »

...obviously undiplomatic incident of the early fall when Princeton was certainly treated in a cavalier fashion by those in charge of athletics at Harvard. This, of course rankles in the hearts of both Princeton undergraduates and graduates alike. Princeton for some time has felt it eminently necessary to remain a part of the Big Three. Even colleges must retain prestige. And Princeton has derived no little part of hers from the fact that she has long been included in the Big Three. Placing those two facts together, then, one readily understands why such phenomena as those of the last weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON AND HARVARD | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

...form from Artist Rackham's pen, and the first thing you know the tree or shed is leering at you like a weird warlock, or smiling like an oldtime grandmother, put of eyes and mouths that vanish when you look closely. Only some knots, bark or grain-wrinkles remain. A gnarled shrub will be writhing and snickering like a soul lost and sarcastic in a twilit place, until you examine. Then you see it was only some Rackham lines, perpetually innocent in their deceit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Week | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Five letter-men remain: J. N. Rarbee Jr. '28, W. Van A. Coombs '27, Kenneth Dorn '27, J. D. Leekley '27, and Captain J. S. Malick '27. Born and Leekley are forwards, while the other three guard the basket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL QUINTET IN FOR DIFFICULT SEASON | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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