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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evident to need comment When one considers also the new breadth of representation which Mr. Byrne brings to the board in his capacity as the first Catholic ever elected to be a member of the Harvard corporation, the interest of his appointment stands revealed in its totality. --Boston Transcript...
...upward flight. But even now there is nothing in the situation to discourage the poor but bright boy. The doors of higher education are still open to him and the sacrifice he will have to make today is comparatively no greater than that of five years ago. --Boston Transcript...
From the earthy Transcript and Cosmopolitan the Lampoon turns to spiritualism. Whether the vagaries of mediums and the pronouncements of scientists of high and low degree are to be regarded as the newest madness, or as a final revelation to a waiting world, Lampy does not tell us, buy the obviously ludicrous side of the movement, or craze, or what you will, is held up in his pages for the amusement of his faithful readers...
...manufacturer of concrete mixers that his present machinery is also expected to produce toy ballons, tooth paste, ladies' shoes, incandescent lights and derby hats and he would throw up his hands in horror. Yet that is exactly the composite demand that critics are making of our colleges. --Boston Transcript...
...number of the Advocate. Its editorials also have a wider range than the College Yard. The best of them on Labor in Politics is a good piece of sane and careful thought; the paragraphs on political ferment at Harvard and on prohibition are more in the manner of the Transcript's frequent badinage. The conservatives may read with misgivings the plea for liberalizing our curriculum still further through introducing a course on Hamlet by Forbes Robertson, with histrionic demonstrations of the lectures; but it must be remembered that Columbia has long since stolen a march upon us by establishing...