Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Re: "Putting England Right." Tell Mr. Sydney Walton to improve the English weather, thin out London traffic, make it easier to get on a good golf course, turn out some good-looking women in the shops, streets and society, install decimal currency, teach taxi-drivers to talk so I can understand them, have the newspapers print something about America- especially business news-get some shows and nightclubs running that can compare with Broadway (and stop that annoying "club" system that makes it so hard to have a good time except in roughneck night places). When these things are attended...
...first active steps towards the use of the Morris Gray Fund for Modern Poetry were outlined yesterday afternoon by Professor Winship in the Art Room of the Widener Library, in an informal talk. The gift by Morris Gray '77 of $30,000, the income from which was to be used for the purchase of contemporary poetry, was announced last month, and Professor Winship's speech yesterday was the first intimation of what general plan would be followed...
...first of these speakers will be Robert F. Frost who will talk in the first week in May. He will be followed at approximately monthly intervals by other prominent poets...
Tomorrow afternoon in Emerson 23, Professor H.A. Wolfson will speak before the Harvard Classical Club at 4 o'clock. The subject of Professor Wolfson's talk is to be "The First Punctures in Aristotle's Universe", and following his address an open discussion will be held...
...months of paternalistic culture and Trinity will be in a position today claim to the title, "best read college in America." The possibilities for dinner and pullman car conversations that these informed men will enjoy, are unlimited. No need for Trinity graduates to depend on. Vanity Fair talk as an avenue for popularity. And surely they will be able to sit down for fifteen minutes with a newspaper without fear of neglecting the classics they know so well. The only disadvantage in the idea is that it will be so easy to spot a Trinity man in any gathering...