Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...posters in streetcars, on the pillars of subway stations, the billboards of vacant lots, present the picture of a woman in a shawl. Her chin is pressed to the pivot of her wrist; her eyes are smeared with black. She might be any age, this sad, sharpened Jewess; the thing that has pointed her bones and thinned her flesh is not age but weariness; she is the incarnation of the most desolate of physical woes, fatigue. "Are You Tired of Giving?" asks the caption. "You Don't Know What It Is to Be Tired...
...rule there is not, though inevitably the illustrations have a certain flair. There are one or two bad spots, this time, especially the various essays at horses, but on the whole the drawings seem fairly creditable. The page by Wood and C. F. F. is perhaps the most finished thing in the number, though smacking almost too much of the professional sophisticate...
Usually we take delight in the Inkling page, but this time we felt rather disappointed. The authors of the longer prose pieces, for their part, have mostly directed their efforts at the University, an excellent thing, for supposedly they know it well. And after all, a place filled with absent-minded professors and collegiate sheiks are distinctly strained, but the Tribute to a Passing Profile by an Artist Who Could Draw Only Full Faces is a pleasing fancy...
...Lampoon the night-life brilliance and paid by the inch satire of the professional humorous publications. The Jester is a genial soul, his irony is gentle, hand-wrought, not cast, his fancies are his foibles and not his bread and butter. Life, especially college life, to him is a thing to be enjoyed, and not exploited. It, is possible, he has found through observation of his neighbors, to pass the time in all manner of absurdities, but he prefers to laugh and that late in May, gently...
Attention is again called to Jerome Greene's recent statement on the Fund: "A subscription to the Harvard Fund is essentially an expression on the part of a Harvard man of his desire to be counted each year as doing something for his alma mater. The first and essential thing is to be thus counted. . . . The amount of the annual gift to the Harvard Fund is of secondary importance as compared with giving something, however small. Of two men having the same income, one might be justified in giving $100 a year and another only...