Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...previous World Fairs have had vast classic façades which wearied the eye; interminable promenades which wearied the feet; monotonous planning, usually in squares, which wearied the mind. The Chicago planners are determined to permit none of these fatiguing conventions. Architecture will be imaginative rather than historical. Transportation will be ubiquitous (monorails, moving sidewalks, boats). Planning will be organic, molding the entire Fair into an architectural unit...
...will do so again today. The team is at present without the services of captain F. A. Clark '29, who is at Red Top with the crew, but since the first tournament match for Harvard not come until June 22 he will be enabled to play in the outdoor classic, contrary to previous expectations. The scheduled match with Yale at Cambridge for this Saturday has been cancelled since Yale plays Pennsylvania Military College that day in the opening round of the intercollegiates...
...think of no more confusing job for a conscientious correspondent than to be in Boston covering Harvard University. Perfectly reliable news stories emanate from its classic shades one day only to be denied the next. There was no reason the news given out by officials of the Harvard Athletic Association on May 3 should not have been printed tanent the raising of a ten million dollar athletic funds but on the following day President Lowell, after what was probably a frantic conference with the Overseers, Trustees and the heads of Lee Higginson (perhaps a redundant grouping) hotly denied that there...
...difficulty in securing gloves reported by the erudites is remedied before the impending clash, the millennium of good sportsmanship, comparable only to that of the Crimson-Lampoon classic is assured...
...Nanking last week, the progressive Nationalist Government passed a decree forbidding decapitation as a method of punishment. The abolishment of decapitation, however, does not even remotely imply the abolishment of capital punishment in China. It is merely the long, bright, classic sword of the headsman that has been abolished-an antiquated relic deemed unworthy of modern, mechanistic Nationalist China. A Chinese execution is always something of a local holiday. The victim is allowed to drink his fill of rice wine until blissfully intoxicated. At the execution grounds, he kneels down, head thrust forward. Under the old regime...