FACULTY AND CRIMSON ERECT GUIDE
POSTS FOR WANDERING FRESHMEN
--HARVARD DAILY WILL PRINT ARTICLES ON CONCENTRATION BY PROFESSORS
--WILL ALSO BE ISSUED IN PAMPHLET FORM
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MORE FEATURES--a regular graduate school column, more and more frequent reviews, a 1924 Campaign series written by Faculty members--cropped up in the Twenties. Punches, elaborate initiation ceremonies, dances, dinners, and pranks on the Lampoon made the decade sparkle. It took three tries to photograph the Lampy Castle with a "For Sale" sign, but, when it was done, the College was informed that the humor magazine had gone bankrupt. The 23 to 2 victory over Lampy--in baseball, football, basketball, hockey and anything else--was already a tradition; Starting in 1925, the Confidential Guide to Harvard gave the students' view of courses, and the next year, the Vagabond, who is still wandering through Cambridge meandered into the paper. Victor O. Jones, whose Notes From the Back of an Envelope graced the editorial page of the Boston Globe for decades, worked with Thomas H. Eliot, the former Chancellor of Washington University, and George Weller '29, whose thoughts on The Crimson we have already read, in making the last half of the decade the brightest period to date. News flowed in from the hard working editors and the hard-worked candidates. In November 1928, a light plane narrowly missed exterminating the Harvard Band in a freak crash on Soldiers' Field, and The Crimson duly reported the affair. One of the plane's two passengers, Gordon Cairnie, has been The Crimson's next door neighbor for many years, as proprietor of the Grolier Book Shop. When reminded of the event, and The Crimson coverage a few weeks ago, he said "It you write about it, be sure to mention the Grolier Book Shop." And so we have.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell and James Michael Curley took their share of flak from The Crimson. In both cases, it seems, the personality of the attacked was as important to the editorialists as their programs. Lowell in particular was challenged for his autocratic manner, and his seeming indifference to the College's public image. When he deigned to discuss his House Plan with the press. The Crimson found the occasion surprising enough to make it the subject of an editorial.
When George Baker, the great theatre teacher, resigned to go to the more congenial atmosphere of Yale. The Crimson rebuked Lowell's antagonism to the theatre. Taking a stand in defense of architecture purity, the paper strongly attacked the building of Memorial Church, and ridiculed Lowell's House Plan. Mr. Lowell was unconvinced.