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"Do you remember the living conditions in our time? Unless you were a malefactor of great wealth, living in Claverly or Beck, or took your turn in standing under a faucet in teh gymnasium, there was no chance to bathe. Our classmate, Flandrau, says somewhere in his 'Diary of a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD '95 CONTRASTED WITH UNIVERSITY OF TODAY | 10/6/1925 | See Source »

The Author. "Alfred Edward Newton was born in Philadelphia more years ago than he cares to remember; his weight is a matter of confidence." He ran away from school to work for Cyrus Hermann Kotschmar Curtis when that famed publisher was starting the Ladies' Home Journal, and entered business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bibliophile* | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

For, well conceived and executed as it is. "The Show-Off" is noteworthy more as a single character than as a play. Aubrey Piper, the show-off, is untruthful enough, jaunty enough, boastful enough, ignorant enough--"Stick-transit Gloria Monday"--objectionable enough and well-meaning enough to carry any play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/30/1925 | See Source »

"I well remember, as a boy, looking through a microscope into the abdomen of a dead man and seeing all sorts of squirming worms. My father wrote to inquire whether anybody knew what it was. It was stated that the man had eaten raw pork a few days before his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoosier Salad | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

A mediocre man is successful in a game of skill only so long as he can forget drama and concentrate on the physical act; to remember, when aiming his last white tiddlewink at the cup, that his mother is looking on, spells ruin. But champions steal a vigor from exigency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

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