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...simple: a few chairs and tables in every room. Posters and photographs from old Pudding shows blanket the walls. Many of the posters show a large investment of time and talent. Some are done in beautiful pastels and others in oil. Those from the early twentieth century display a marked Toulouse Lautrec influence...
...PUDDING BUBBLED into the twentieth century, turning out a few good shows and many more atrocious ones. One can draw an historical line separating the "modern" and "pre-modern" Pudding eras at World War I. In the spring of 1917, Robert Sherwood '18 had his Barnum Was Right hip-deep into rechearsals with opening night a bare fortnight away. The show was abruptly cancelled and the entire cast marched off to war. Several received decorations for bravery. One of the principle characters and six chorus "girls" gave their lives. Sherwood himself left to serve in the Canadian Black Watch...
Atilio Boron, a Government graduate student specializing in Chilean affairs said Allende's percentage of the total vote was "a great victory." He added that it was the first election in the twentieth century in which an incumbent Chilean president had increased his support in the parliament
...also published criticisms of the works of W.B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde, notably Yeats: the Man and Masks and, more recently, Oscar Wilde (Twentieth Century Views...
...presidents are drawn like lemmings to the sea by the prospect of initiating sweeping reforms in American higher education. In every generation over the last century a Harvard president has come up with some radical innovation. Late in the nineteenth century Eliot started the elective system; early in the twentieth Lowell began concentrations. Late in his career, Lowell also instituted the House system, and right after the Second World War Conant's General Education Committee wrote the Red Book, and Harvard has lived with its distribution and Gen Ed requirements ever since. Although by no stretch of the imagination...