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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...papers are honest I think they will have to admit that the radio helped them to increase their circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1934 | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...time has come for the University to step in and settle the question once and for all, and the commuters have the answer. Segregation may be harmful, but until the Houses decide to admit commuters as "associate members," the present muddled state of affairs will continue to irk the non-resident students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND NO PLACE TO GO | 11/15/1934 | See Source »

Harvard, although it lost the football game, won, after a valiant struggle, the Championship of the Demon Rum. Nevertheless, one must admit West Point put up an amazingly good fight, considering the fact that two of its heartiest sections were, by orders from G.H.Q. completely and utterly dry. All the cadets are subject to a most rigorously enforced prohibition against intoxicating beverages, and so West Point's drinking was confined to the cadets' supporters, friends, and old grads. The Army's future officers may not be supposed to touch the stuff, but their allies practically make up for their teetotalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fighting Harvard Rooters Barely Defeat West Point in Very Thrilling Alcoholic Encounter | 11/15/1934 | See Source »

...Louis Kid" is good Cagney; and good Cagney, as an unfortunately large number of people know, may be depended upon to include turmoil among the gendarmerie, wisecracks in a welter, fisticuffs in the boudoir, and a pace so rapid as hopelessly to outstrip the plot. Shamefacedly, we admit to a general liking for all these inevitable ingredients, as well as for the toothsome Patricia Ellis and the dogged Alan Jenkins, Mr. Cagney's perennial henchman. The Kid himself, may best be described as presenting an able impersonation of James Cagney. We particularly admired the chivalry with which, in the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/14/1934 | See Source »

...claim a monopoly on Harvard opinion. Putting it frankly, we are not competing with the Advocate as it is but with the Advocate as it could be. Mr. H. M. Wade would show, in our opinion, considerably more sense and even more good taste if he would admit that he has not lived up to his opportunities before he starts writing sarcastic and peevish letters to the papers. "Dies irae, dies illa." Charles R. Cherington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Critic Retorts | 11/7/1934 | See Source »

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