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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sad commentary that the question of handling two such things as a memorial and a chapel should have caused the strife and mismanagement here occasioned. From the time of the distribution of the indefinite pledge blanks until the present, when the best has been made of a bad situation, there has been a succession of blunders. A strong stand has not been made at any time; unanimity of feeling has never been approximated. All that can be hoped for now is that in dignity the two memorials will at least be equal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN MEMORIAM | 5/7/1931 | See Source »

...beginning of the intensive general examination season. To most Seniors, one or more three-hour trials during the next two weeks will have a great deal to do with the way in which they leave Harvard; that is to say, with or without honors, soon or late, happy or sad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENERAL EXAMINATIONS | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...Rees in Omaha, Neb., waited four days after he died this month, until his sister should arrive for the funeral. She came, the night before Easter. The mortician in charge, Leo A. Hoffman, did not like the idea of a funeral on Easter, thought it might bring the mourners sad recollections on future Easters. Efficient, enterprising, Mortician Hoffman had an idea. Funeral services are often held at night. Wakes are an old custom. Why not?though he had never heard of one?a night burial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Burial at Night | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...SAD SAD LOVERS?Daniel Carson Goodman & Duffield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Outline of Art | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...decadence, leaves its enervated Youth to weave with whitened fingers the social daisy chain in which he must finally strangle. However, the Way toward regeneration still lies open; it all comes down to a question of values. While the "Princeton Manner", that debutante manna, may make idols of the sad young man, the "Princetonian" advises, and rightly so, that a veneer is but a veneer, and that a zest, an enthusiasm, that indefinable "joi de vivre", is, after all, the requisite for achievement. When that is gone, Life in the Spirit goes. When that is gone, then, O Princeton, weep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS YOUNGER DEGENERATION | 3/27/1931 | See Source »

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