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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concentrated market for his imports. Doubtless he also felt some of that superior altruism which a generous man, conscious of his own culture, experiences in helping to uplift the herd. For though Editor Mencken stoutly denies that he is a reformer, an apostle of anything, yet he has written his own definition: "There are also persons who oscillate beautifully between the Uplift and honest lives." Politics, osteopathy, Baptist-thumping, Rotary-scourging, prostitution in Missouri, absurdity in the press, failed to amuse Mr. Nathan after the first year. An amiable sybarite who would rather be known for the tang...
...courses in English open to under-graduates may be divided into seven groups, dealing with writing, public speaking and the study of language and literature. English literature is understood as including all literature written in the English language, American literature as well as British. The former is more or less dealt with in some of the courses on British literature, and various courses are given specifically on American authors and literary history...
...years have passed. The newspapers of the East united yesterday to mark the solemnity and the import of the occasion. Yet, in the eloqence and in the fervor of what was written on editorial pages, it became only too easy to overlook the news that these same papers carried. One, in its leading story, describes relations with Mexico as strained to the point of war. Another leads its front page with a story picturing the armed menace of the new Germany. Others discussed the rumblings of war that have thundered out of China ever since the Nanking incident. Every paper...
...CRIMSON for April 7, 1917, printed a special telegram from General Wood, a leading story on the recruiting activities of the R. O. T. C. and two editorials urging preparedness and action. But also on the first page there is an article written by a famous German professor on the Faculty, in which he says...
...Liberal Club members, grinds, CRIMSON candidates--all are alike in one respect; they have a narrow, intense perspective," said Frederick Orin Bartlett '26, short-story writer, in an interview. He is probably best known as "The Old Dog", under which name he has written a series of college stories. Mr. Bartlett studied at the University intermittently during the closing years of the last century and nearly 25 years later came to Harvard again, this time to get a degree with the class...