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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen High" is respectable, comfortable and fairly amusing. It's just the sort of taking to take your mother to when she visits you for over the weekend. Neither of you will have the opportunity to blush, and the sight of Julia Sanderson again will make your ma-ma recall the first time your father took her to the theater...
...Tommy" is about as sweet, simple and girlish as a graduate of the Skowhegan Female Seminary, and its success in New York seems assured. Before it changes its name again for Broadway consumption, and you lose sight of Peg go and see the reason for the Harvard attendance at the Repertory last year...
...true that Dominico Theotocopuli was mad. It is true that he was astigmatic, for one must believe that sanity and sight lie in numbers, and certainly he did not see or think as did any other man of his time. He saw the spirit in the body, shapes of the mind in every earthly shape. Only a few saints and mathematicians have understood as he did; they, too, were mad. Heads in which a cone is buried; elongated muscles and loins growing up through the paint in mystery like weeds or flowers; skies that break, trees that kneel, faces...
...current number of Harper's inadvertently demonstrates once again the very great influence which personality has upon the undergraduate. Alumni out 20 or 30 years repeatedly approached President Eliot in his old age with the remark that the most lasting memory that they carried away from Harvard was the sight of the President walking to his office every morning...
...chosen Chairman of the Back-to-Cambridge Day, the date of which will be announced later. The first Back-to-Cambridge Day was held last spring. At the time it was proposed to make this an annual event, and it is expected that the usual program of sight-seeing, athletics, and speeches, will again be followed...