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...yesterday's CRIMSON an article by a Harvard graduate and a present professor at the University of California which was reprinted in full from the "California Monthly" places the center of Harvard life in the Yard. With the advent of the House Plan and the resultant hegira toward the banks of the Charles there has arisen, and will probably continue to do so, a wailing chorus decrying the passing of ivy walls and boardwalks as the last-year men go down to the river...
...exploited and illustrated early frontier anecdotes, railroad sagas, Mississippi River steamboat races. They flooded the country with pictures of George Washington at home, baby looking at mama in the mirror and saying "It's Mama," baby looking sadly at mama and saying. "Where's papa?" With the advent of such high-pressure imitators as the Police Gazette and cigaret-coupons, the firm died...
...projected Memorial Chapel to be presented to the college by the alumni seems to have dropped completely out of the picture as a result of the House Plan. It is easy to see what has caused the disappearance of this subject from the newspapers, but the advent of Mr. Harkness' gift is no excuse for this obscurity. As potential alumni and present personnel of Harvard, it would seem that the undergraduates are entitled to know just what is being done in this matter...
Educational methods, constantly shifting with the advent of new outlooks on life, are changing so fast that scholarships endowed for a definite course of study in one decade may be obsolete in the next. The St. Johns' plan introduces a novel system of study at college. There is a new field now opened up for those donors who are willing to give scholarships without any restricting stipulations, and who are willing to open up a limitless field of knowledge to those who are able to make advantage of the opportunities offered...
...Greek and Fine Arts, who has been assembling a special collection of movies gathered for the last few years for the significance of the art exhibited in them. The pictures to be shown are mostly ones made in the period before 1926, just before the beginning of the advent of talkies, at which time the silent drama had reached a high point from an artistic point of view. At the present time Professor Post is adding certain of the talkies of his collections, if they are exceptionally good...