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...well. The successful series of cabarets so far held in the Living Room terminates tonight in what promises to be the biggest whoopee of the season, for special effort has been made to obtain an unusually well known young lady for hostess. The management shows its usual good judgment and happy fortune by the selection of the Empress Josephine for the all important position. Not only does she add the touch of royalty without which no ultra-fashionable gathering is complete, but she also represents the old conservatism of the Dean's office ante-room. Long noted for the maintenance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG AND DANCE | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...shall not cancel my subscription, but I must say I have less respect for you and should hesitate to recommend you to every one. Moreover, many more such exhibitions of bad judgment, bad manners, and bad sportsmanship will finish me as a subscriber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...personal preference. Many parents would undoubtedly prefer to send their sons to an institution where gentle guidance of the proper kind is provided for them. There are, indeed, already many colleges designed to suit this taste. Harvard almost alone has placed its full reliance on the undirected initiative and judgment of the individual student. Because it believes that therein has lain Harvard's unique glory, the CRIMSON joins Professor Morison in preferring the present system of robust neglect to any alternative plan of gentle guidance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF PREFERENCE | 11/14/1928 | See Source »

...human beings, either in domestic or international affairs, I have never seen the signs of it. His whole creed of complacent capitalistic individualism and of the right and duty of economic success commits him to the continuation of that hypocritical religion of 'prosperity' which is, in my judgment, the greatest force that exists at present in maintaining the unrealities of our social tone and temper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gratitude | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Europe than Serge Koussevitzky but he outgrew even that colossal instrument, became a conductor. Not until last year did he gather his admiring Bostonians around him and show them what he used to do with the double-bass. Boston rhapsodized but Manhattan waited to form her own judgment. In Boston King Koussevitzky can do no wrong. Neither could he last week in Manhattan. Of his first double-bass recital there, Critic Lawrence Oilman wrote in part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Unison | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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