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...find no conceivable good for the undergraduate members of Lowell House in this double dinner party other than the possible gain in house spirit which would result from the feeling that the undergraduate body of the house was dining as a unit. What good, for instance, did the undemocratic display of starched laundry, of respectable citizenry, of distinguished faculty able citizenry, of distinguished faculty bring to the students? Obviously, by all the simplest canons of good taste, the whole house should, to achieve its avowed objects, have a unity of dress and eating level...
...inauguration of the Monday evening dinners at Lowell House last night occasioned a gala display of lights from its tower...
Last week the Ohio board of film censors refused to permit The Big House, Hearst (Cosmopolitan) editorial cinema designed to flay prison conditions in the U. S. (TIME, July 7), to be shown anywhere in Ohio. The board's reason: "The display of such films is harmful to the boys & girls of Ohio." Commented Chairman Henry G. Brunner of the state Democratic executive committee: "It is apparent that the state [Republican] administration fears the picture would revive interest in the Ohio penitentiary fire, costing 320 lives because it portrays overcrowding and other prison evils involved in that disaster...
Among the documents pertinent to the beginnings of Harvard which are on display, that of most immediate interest is probably the Charter. Protected from the bright glare of modern electric lamps by a heavy cloth, the precious parchment reposes safely beneath locked show cases. But by simply folding back this covering the curious may inspect as they will this aged treasure of the College as it lies in its gilt frame behind crimson curtains. It is the original charter of 1650 granted by the General Court of the Colony and signed by the Governor, Thomas Dudley. "The Christian Warfare against...
...very sudden affection of Sebastian for the lovely Olivia. The picture of Olivia given to Viola is left upon a bench by that dissembling young lady from whence it is picked up by Sebastian and immediately the beauty of that lady (Olivia) arouses obvious amorous feelings. After this display of sighs and the attending languishing looks, what follows does not seem quite so impossible...