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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...identity of the sorehead is unknown. On the cover of the book it is announced that the author, is "Hollis Randolph Thayer-Smith," while the publisher is declared to be the "Pessimistic Society of Cambridge." But that he finds much to scoff at in Harvard and her professors is apparent from his score or more of sonnets, written in more than passing verse, which appear in his little volume...
...unknown sorehead also vents considerable spleen against Professor Copeland. hailing him as the "self-styled sophist of Hollisian haunts," the dyspeptic bard describes one of Professor Copeland's famous readings as follows...
...Club's decision yesterday to produce henceforth plays by Harvard undergraduates is significant in being an abandonment of its former fruitful policy. The club's productions in the last few years have been interesting and unusual; they have ranged over a wide field; they have often introduced playwrights hitherto unknown to the American stage and always they have presented plays never before seen in this country. Drama, like music, of foreign contemporaries is all too seldom given, and since the club has offered such opportunities, local audiences have shown marked appreciation...
...these unfortunate mutes, from 15 to 20% have a useful amount of hearing. Affliction of the ear, found in innumerable forms and degrees, is commonly caused by scarlet fever, measles, tooth-cutting, catarrh, loud noises, old age. There have been occasional cases of apparent total deafness, arising from an unknown cause, which disappeared after a few years in a manner equally mysterious...
...their public nuisances? Mark Twain was kindly disposed toward bad little boys; he made good reading of them. Nevertheless, many urchins since have unwittingly assumed the habits of his tatterdemalions without their redeeming graces; the U. S. is full of juveniles?some of native, some of alien, some of unknown parentage?who are quick to become dicers, toss-pots and wastrels if steps are not taken to make them demean themselves with proper decorum. Last week, two movements were set afoot which will doubtless greatly further the moral education of these Huckleberry Finns? Polish, Jewish, Italian, Irish and American...