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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion Professor Rollins's examination started concerns something more than English 72. There is a similar dissatisfaction with the English department in general, and it may not be inapropos at this particular moment to comment upon the situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The General | 3/29/1928 | See Source »

Among his silhouettes, typical subjects are of polo, an Indian, several boxers, a cock-fight, a trumpeter, and several bull fighters. The paintings of the ceramics are of similar subjects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

...convinced that Professor Rollins does not understand the spirit and "essence" of poetry. When one has glanced through several of the volumes Professor Rollins had edited, this statement appears even more absurd and ridiculous than the later statement about "novels, chronology, and similar bricks and mortar of literature". Neither of these statements is any more worthy of serious comment than the "skillibooch . . . gmmk" of a baby-or the braying of an ass. Such noises speak for themselves-certain vibrations have issued forth from a cavity into the surrounding atmosphere causing a meaningless noise at which we must either laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of English 72 | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

Professor Rollins is from the evidence of his examination not much interested in the spirit and essance of poetry. His interest sems to be centered in novels, chronology and similar bricks and mortar of literature. This is after all a good and typically scholarly point of view: but it is to be questioned whether this sort of scholarship is the aim of many of those who listen to his lectures. (Name withheld by request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A Bit Late" | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Mayor Edward J. Quinn of Cambridge will speak at the Union tonight at 7.15 o'clock. His subject will be "Democratic Organization", and as a National Democratic Committeeman for Massachusetts, he will explain the preliminary organization of the party before such a convention. The mock convention will be similar to that held four years ago by the same organization. Delegates from all states will meet in the New Lecture Hall under the regular convention rules to nominate a candidate for President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEMOCRATS HEAR MAYOR QUINN AT UNION TONIGHT | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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