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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have had the city pretty thoroughly, scared. The authorities would not allow the play to go on uncensored, for fear of consequences which must be cataclysmic, since they are unnamed, and they were afraid, according to Mr. Casey, that the actors would not abide by any alterations in the text, but shoot the whole works, in defiance of agreement. There is, apparently, no trust in the mart of decency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CENSOR NONSENSE | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

According to the text of the resolution by the Associated Harvard Clubs when the gift was voted, it is intended to foster good-will and mutual understanding between the oldest University in the United States and the largest and one of the oldest in South America. The fellowship will bring a student to Harvard for two years, beginning in 1929. The gift was announced in Boston yesterday by H. M. Williams, '85, President of the Associated Harvard Clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT-ELECT PRESENTS AWARD OF HARVARD CLUBS | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...fourth gift dating from the eighteenth century is a manuscript roll from Tun Huang, a province of Kansu, China, which bears a Chinese Buddhist text on the obverse and rough draughts of state documents in ancient Tibetan and in the Iranian language of Khotan on the reverse side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VALUABLE GIFTS ARE RECEIVED BY FOGG | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...always had superiority. . . . All we want now is equality. . . ." Lady Astor was speaking of women. In literature, of course, women have always been inferior to men in the quantity and quality of their writing. Some of them have written entertaining letters, diaries or confessions; they have been good at text books for small children, verses and hymns to God. Disguised in pseudonyms like George Sand or George Eliot, a few of them have scribbled novels. But now it becomes apparent that female writers are legion and are writing with or without pen-names all manner of fantastic letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Women Without Men | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...exhibition of collegiatism will not go unheeded by the group of anglo-philes who point to the Oxford system as the acme of suavity, good manners, cultivation, and what you have not. The fog of rumour which floats over from across the Atlantic has too long served as a text for every critic with a fondness for adornment by generality, and arguments in favour of compulsory chapel, decentralization, more discipline and less direction have all been pinned with a wave of the hand to the cloak of obscurity which covers the Great British University. In spite of the fact that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IDOL SPECULATION | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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