Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having gathered its men the procession broke up in the splurge in front of the Lampoon building, and scrambling into walting busses and private vehicles of one sort and another, allowed self to be transported to the corner Fairfield and Beacon streets...
Admission is by ticket only, which may be obtained by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to "Open Nights," Harvard Observatory, Cambridge...
...infected with its unsavory interludes, the Vagabond will take the occasion to try to remedy one defect that is an inevitable accompaniment of a column acting as a guide to lectures. Dealing as it does with the smallest unit of the course--the lecture--it must treat it as self-supporting and must give it a definite title as an indicator to the prospective listener of what it is to be about. Two groups of lecturers are this of necessity excluded from mention; those whose lectures are of real value only if attended consecutively and those who cannot tell...
...Commercial business requires a concentration of responsibility. Self-government requires decentralization and many checks and balances to safeguard liberty. Our Government, to succeed in business, would need to become in effect a despotism...
...think that Will Rogers is not funny. There were moments in Three Cheers when he was being a little too much of a big brother to Dorothy Stone, for whose father, Fred, he had been persuaded to substitute; and there were other moments when he was too self-consciously ingenuous and stammering. Yet, as usual, his gags were good...