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...artistic merit which can be found periodically around Harvard without one's ever having to set foot within a museum. Holabird's cuts are hold but not obvious and strong without loss of sensitivity. The full page enclosure is a piece which would suffer but little by a comparison with George Grosz's water-color, "The Way of All Flesh" which deals with a similar theme. (Grosz's painting was exhibited in Dunster House several months...

Author: By John Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...view of the possibility that the United States is once again on the verge of involvement in a European war, the CRIMSON reprints, herewith, excerpts from some of its early 1917 editorials. It is our belief that they afford an interesting comparison with undergraduate opinion of today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1917 Crimson Hysteria | 5/23/1940 | See Source »

Bradley leads the band by playing trombone, so on obvious comparison exists with Tommy Dorsey. for total returns, we'll take Bradley. His sweet solos are just as good as Tommy's and he can play hot, something T. D. admittedly can't do, plus the fact that he is a much pleasanter "front man" than Tommy...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

...seven scholastic groups at Harvard, Thurber declared, "a comparison of the standings throughout the four years reveals that the first four groups gain steadily at the expense of the other three categories." In their Freshman year many more men were on probation than on Group 1, but by their Senior year, the number was about evenly divided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLL IS PRIDE OF '40 ALBUM | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

...limited nature of American powers," Buell argues that "this country can dominate the situation." He cites figures on U. S. wealth, industry, consumption, and the appealing figure that the U. S. "has 153 inanimate slaves (foot pounds of man energy per eight-hour day) per capita in comparison with 17 for the world average, 41 for Britain, 35 for France, and 27 for Germany. . . ." The U. S. has rapidly become the greatest "power" in the world, he says, and should shoulder responsibility equal to its power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fundamentalist v. Modernist | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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