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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this has been said to every generation of students since Tutankhamen went to school," said an editorial in the Transcript yesterday, commenting on Dean Greenough's talk before the Society of Harvard Dames on Thursday, in which he said that "clubs, girls, and tutoring schools" were the cause of college failures...
...with the ulster of Representative Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, little noting the spacious effect the garment gave me until I encountered 'strange articles' in the pockets. Retracing my steps, I encountered Henry Cabot Lodge, III, my grandson, whilom Harvard student, now a reporter on the Boston Transcript. But I refused to grant him an interview...
...college is supposed still to be an oasis of liberalism and tolerance. Hence it seems scarcely credible that Mount Holyoke students have sold their birthright to murder the King's English whenever and wherever they please, even to give others a mess of potage. Yet the Transcript vouches for the fact that the Y. W. C. A., perhaps by some form of insidious propaganda, has put in force fines for every lapse from "correct" speech at the dinner table during the week before Thanksgiving, the proceeds to be given to the indigent population of South Hadley for Thanksgiving dinners...
...James E. King of the Transcript in comparing European and American newspaper is inclined to fall in with the general opinon that the standards of the latter are far higher. Commenting on their "fragmentary incompleteness" he also charges the newspapers of the Continent for he excludes England with political subserviency. The American newspaper, he is inclined to think, "tries to set before its readers the complete facts of every important occurrence throughout the world...
...great newspapers of the country have astonished the American family at the breakfast table by their marvelious exploits. But it is hard to believe that the latter claim is quite true. "In America" says Mr. King in support of his contention "even a newspaper as definitely Republican as the Transcript does not hesitate to criticize the Republican party." After all this is something, and it is true that the country is free from an "inspired press'; there is much to be thankful for. But there is little evidence to show that the press of the country is really unbiased...