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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have had time or energy to stimulate the unusual man man to do his utmost. Certain it is, in any case, that Harvard writing today needs a general intellectual atmosphere more favorable to literary production. Yale has had such an atmosphere for many years, whether because of its Yale Review, its Yale University Press, or some other influence it is hard to say; somebody has said that at New Haven men of discrimination like to buy books of poetry and belles-lettres, while at Harvard they buy mainly books on political and economic affairs. If the College...
...first week, work consisted of physical training, close order drill, gun drill, and an intensive review of the principles of firing. The daily schedule began at 5.45 A. M. with first call, followed fifteen minutes later by assembly and a half an hour of physical exercises and calisthenics. Mess came at 6.30 At 7.30 drill began and lasted until 11.45. Afternoon drill lasted only two hours and a half in only two hours and a half in order to allow time for athletics. At the end of the season, all-regimental teams were made up in base-ball, track...
...many months ago, being asked to review the Advocate, I took the occasion to inquire why it is that so many college literary periodicals are pale and bloodless things, and expressed the opinion that the Advocate suffered from not being edited and written for the sake of its readers. My contention was that the magazine was too often a collection of themes written for the composition courses and later embalmed in print...
...mind, the editors have inserted three articles on the spring major sports. Mr. Buttrick writes a discriminating little piece on the prospects of the baseball team. Mr. Weeks regales us with genially grotesque tales of rowing at Harvard, past and present. O. L. F. submits a comparatively commonplace review of the track season. The articles, to be sure, are not extraordinary; there is little in them that you can get your teeth into; little that would be likely to start a discussion at a club table. Nevertheless the touch of journalism in the Advocate is to be welcomed; not because...
...issue for April 1921, the Theatre Magazine devoted a whole page to pictures of the Dramatic Club's fall production of the past season, Lady Gregory's "Dragon", speaking particularly of the settings and lighting, while Mr. H. T. Parker '90, the famous dramatic critic, in his review of the spring plays, says, "the settings, the lighting, the stage-management were nearly impeccable...