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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comment in the Suggestion Book. But one matter, little dreamed of by the creator of the book, has occasioned the greatest violence of argument among the anonymous combattors. The locked door and what lies beyond; the weary forty steps up forty steps down, and back again: the favoritism show the attendants in this vital matter-this is what has caused indifference and urbanity to pass from the minds of students of History I. But the forbidden gate still looms: and Rome may fall, and Popes and Emperors rage, in vain-while the privy passageway beyond remains a secret...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE THE PALE | 3/14/1928 | See Source »

...Taft's young niece Elinor Herron, also came into the public eyes last week, when she paraded at a Chicago fashion show in silk bloomers and a smoking jacket. It was her debut as a mannequin. Miss Herron, versatile, has studied ballet dancing in Paris intends to be an architect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Taft School | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...McAndrew "a stool pigeon of King George" and other defaming phrases, both before and after suspending him as superintendent (TIME, Oct. 10 et seq.). Mr. McAndrew treated the whole affair with contempt, walked out of his "insubordination" trial by the school board like a man leaving an ineffectual burlesque show. Perhaps contempt meant "too proud to fight," perhaps there was no great glory in being the martyr of a burlesque show; so last week Mr. McAndrew turned on Mayor Thompson with a legal rapier, sued him for libel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Libel | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...eighty-second annual production of the Hasty Pudding Club show is gradually picking up momentum with the recently chosen cast in activity under Director Louis Silvers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAST OF PUDDING SHOW ANNOUNCED | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...importance than the games held with long-standing rivals. A national, representative schedule may well lead to intersectional contests, with time-consuming trips, and all the other evils that go with "championships" and comparative scores. And the theory that graduates in distant states should occasionally be treated to a show of Harvard football in their back yard, is, to say the least, subject to abuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROTATING SCHEDULE | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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