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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little Codfish Cabot" is essentially a satire, a satire that manages to include in one brief sweep all that goes to make up a certain type of Harvard education, with the exception, naturally, of studies. It is here that the sponsors of the book make their only mistake; for in portraying a single type as perhaps representative of the whole, they have laid themselves open to attack. Everyone does not misuses the Freshman Jubliee, or consider probation normal; and it is my guess that there will be some who will say so. But yet there is sufficient truth...

Author: By B. B., | Title: "CODFISH CABOT" COMES TO HARVARD | 5/16/1924 | See Source »

...largely on his amazing gift of silence, he will be the logical nominee of the Republican party next fall. If a third party is formed, as is almost certain, and if the Democrats can find a true liberal, with the ability and the idealism of Wilson, the Democrats will sweep the country," said Dr. R. L. Buell talking to the Democratic Club last night at the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEMOCRATS MAY SWEEP COUNTRY | 4/10/1924 | See Source »

Consider the pendulum! For some time that of the Student Council has hung motionless, but suddenly it has begun to swing, and on its first sweep severs two Gordian knots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALIVE AND | 4/2/1924 | See Source »

...negative side held that if the United States were to disarm, it would not necessarily mean that a wave of pacifism would sweep over the world. "We are exerting pressure on no one," said Birch, the first negative speaker. "Therefore, if we disarmed, no European nation would be benefited, while the weaker American nations would be deprived of our aid. The pacifist bases his present stand on conditions which will not exist for centuries. War will continue, until the people are educated against it from the cradle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLOSE VERDICT GOES AGAINST PACIFISTS | 4/2/1924 | See Source »

...dangerously happy time for Democratic interests in the country" said Professor J. L. Conger speaking before the Democratic Club in the Union last night, "for it looks as if almost any Democratic ticket could sweep the country today. But unless the convention in New York City this summer nominates a Liberal candidate, the aspects of the entire situation will change. At any rate the results of the coming campaign will hinge entirely on the vote of the middle West, particularly the farmers of Iowa and Missouri...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINDS DEMOCRATS TOO HAPPY | 3/13/1924 | See Source »

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