Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement yesterday that there was a serious doubt about the advisability of holding a Junior Dance this year was disappointing surprise to many members of the class. The Junior Prom is an old tradition at Harvard, as in most colleges, which is anticipated with pleasure. It is a pity that the indifference of a few members of the class should be more in evidence than the strong desire of many to continue the custom. It is strange that a militant move should be underway in the Sophomore class to hold a dance this year, while the Juniors should be expressing...
...that: 1) The number of German unemployed has increased during the past month from 671,000 to 1,030,000, making 70% more out-of-work than in 1927; and 2) "The five weeks shut down in the steel industry, which came to an end early in December, caused serious dislocations in the iron, steel, coal and coke trades...
...Seniors worrying over their theses and to Juniors taking the Reading Period seriously, the petition in circulation among the Sophomores to the effect that the desirability of a class dance is felt by certain 1931 classmen might seem paradoxical coming as it does at a time when all ephemeral things should be put aside and a serious attempt made to fill in the gaps of one's general culture. To Freshmen who have illusions concerning the social side of Harvard life without experiencing other than that which centers around the Freshman dormitories, the fact that the Sophomores should have...
...possible contribution would be all or part of Lord (London Daily Mail) Beaverbrook's ?25,000 thanks offering, which he offered for having escaped serious injury last week in an automobile accident...
...with his customary charm he gives other than serious artistic justification for the compressed plays-"their brevity flatters my inability to sustain a long flight, and the inertia that barely permits me to write at all. And finally when I became a teacher, here was the length that could be compassed after the lights of the House were out and the sheaf of absurd French exercises indignantly marked with red crayon...