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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England academy in a quiet town to a cosmopolitan university within eight minutes of the center of an urban population of some two million souls. Harvard life has become diversified and shot through with every sort of human interest and divergent aim so that an individual student can see only a small portion of it all. He cannot see the woods for the trees. Life is very much rushed, very confusing, and it is very difficult to maintain the necessary cohesion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Explains House Plan to Graduates in Speech In St. Louis---Emphasizes Social Benefits to be Derived | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...When you see your first war play in several years, two points are driven home in short order. The first is that the tears, the significant remarks and so on do not ring true, and the other is that the humor isn't half as bad as you used to think it was when you were deluged with it some years back...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

...plays which have had a great vogue in New York," she continued, "are those which the road towns want to see. New York is able to support musical shows largely because of the transient population which spreads the news at home and thus helps to create a road audience for them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jane Cowl Gives Reasons for Disastrous Dramatic Season in Gotham--Has Acted Juliet 698 Times, Often Seven a Week | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

...last two games it has also been without the services of Captain D. J. O'Connell '29, who suffered a leg injury in the Lowell Textile game, and T. G. Upton '31, who has had a slight attack of the grippe. Both of these however will probably see action in tonight's encounter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAINE ENGAGES CRIMSON IN BASKETBALL CONTEST | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

...read it). Most of these authors should be collected in their original bindings and the lady will, of course, have to do over her library. There will be many cloth books in bright colors and paper labels and the decorator will have to use uncommon skill. Somehow I cannot see Barbellion in calf or Sherwood Anderson in levant. Hardy and France? Perhaps...

Author: By Maurice Firuski., | Title: A Modern "Gentlemans" Library | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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