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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steady on seeing Harvard Square golfers buying their winning feathers after the game, but there are a couple of things which makes my gorge rise. The first and the lest offensive is the sticker craze. I suppose I'll have to stomach the exhibition of foreign baggage labels. I've got a few on my bags myself--but the stickers which explain in bold-faced type that Harvard College is responsible for a bag or a trunk and the manners and personal appearance of the twirp it belongs to are altogether too much for me. The only thing which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFESSIONS OF A GENTLEMAN | 11/6/1925 | See Source »

...whole of creation about six of its social errors. Perhaps that's what is wanted. I hope so. One never does know exactly what the head of a course calls education. And then these graduates raise the standards as well as a lot of fool questions. Well, I've done my best anyway. Human nature is human nature and life is rather short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFESSIONS OF A GENTLEMAN | 11/4/1925 | See Source »

Really, life is just one worry after another. Take for instance these hour exams. We're hardly back in Cambridge before they spring those on us. Even the pleasantest courses have them. I've been fooling this fall with one of those social things in Emerson--every one advised taking it, complete rest and all that. Merely some of that help one another stuff graphed. Well, Friday the lecturer posted a notice about the hour exam in it: I suppose to give us something to think about while he talked. And though I kept wondering all through the hour whether...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFESSIONS OF A GENTLEMAN | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...Vermont, where he was visiting. "Oh, yes," said he, "that is true. I have become connected with the General Packing Co. and have written some letters recommending it to some of my friends. I regard it as a very good thing. They are making fruit concentrates. I've looked into it and it seems to be a very good thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Copeland's Letter | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

...best things that happen to a football squad is what happened to Harvard last week," was Coach Hawley's parting statement. "The Harvard team hasn't had a first down made against it by rushing this year. They're a good team--they've got a wonderful line, and I want you to know that I'm not fooling myself a bit on that Harvard team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDIAN HORDE COMES PREPARED TO SCALP | 10/23/1925 | See Source »

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