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Indifference as to the outcome of class elections will continue as long as the candidates are unknown to the voters, and as long as the class offices remain in the average student's eyes only honorary positions for athletic heroes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 5/8/1920 | See Source »

...regret the applause after each poem. The accumulation of your appeal was thus broken, yet it is through such lack of comprehension that we understand the awakening of our generation to, realizations unknown to those before us, much as the structure of their religion has failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 5/1/1920 | See Source »

Although, everything over one-half of one per cent, has (ostensibly) passed into the limbo of the unknown, certain features have come to recompense the toiling undergraduate for this his greatest loss. Here and there a hip pocket bulges happily, now and again the Puritanic fragrance of the Yard is spiced with a more pleasing aroma. All in all, however, the era of John has passed. We enter upon the age of Fortuna. Things may not be moving forward, but they certainly are moving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCHUS AND FORTUNA. | 4/10/1920 | See Source »

Before the war Mr. Sassoon was practically unknown as a poet, but in 1918, on the publication of "The Old Huntsmen," he suddenly became known as one of England's leading young poets. The war, changing his point of view and his style effected this sudden rise to fame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGFRIED SASSOON SPEAKS HERE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 | 4/6/1920 | See Source »

...again, on again, gone again Finegan." The Harvard Magazine is on again! Springing from unknown parentage last year, it has staggered along a chequered path, and only saved itself from collapse last month by resorting to the well-known ruse of the possum. By playing dead for one issue it has been able to recover enough vitality to totter around for one more lap before its inevitable fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING 'POSSUM | 3/26/1920 | See Source »

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