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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the football team has left for its one game away from Cambridge it seems appropriate to bring before the eyes of the public the admirable arrangements made by at least one telegraph company for vicarious cheering. Experts of the sort who made "don't write, telegraph" famous have brought forward their contribution to the overemphasis problem in the form of ten suggested pep messages to be delivered to the boys a few minutes before the game. At present writing no statistics are available as to the relative number of telegrams delivered to winning and to losing teams during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEY WIRE | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

...that current literature is far greater in amount than the average reader can hope comfortably to taste, to chew, or to digest. The student in Harvard naturally feels somewhat at a loss which way to turn when presented with such a volume of reading matter. The value of some sort of selection in this maze of books seems obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAIN AND THE CHAFF | 11/6/1929 | See Source »

...first" (i.e. our summa cum laude) as when he rows in the boat or plays on the team. Now that our class is fifty years out, we have attained this catholicity. The Housing Plan and all that it implies will promote, we hope and believe, something of the same sort for our young men and their parents and their sweethearts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAUSSIG LOOKS INTO FUTURE OF HARVARD LIVING | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

Frankly, Professor Rogers prefers the active man, the man in the vanguard, who drops shibboleths for living principles: the one who in other words, if not better, is at least different. Liberalism, being essentially a sort of seeking the golden megs, is not calculated to inspire a young man sufficiently to bring out in him that highest of all qualities which Professor Rogers' insight has discovered and his eloquence has set forth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITH MY LITTLE HATCHET | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

...should be possible to develop some sort of an organization in which undergraduates could get some well founded, practical dramatic knowledge by producing good plays, the least advantage would be a sound appreciation of the drama. Such an asset would be a benefit not only to the individual but also to Harvard once so illustrious in the theatrical world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILLING THE GAP | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

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