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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a fairly rare occurrence for the '52 nine, for in almost all its games to date, it has either slaughtered vastly inferior teams or been hopelessly outclassed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Nine Entrains for Andover Diamond Tomorrow | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

Actually Harvard hasn't won a sailing regatta all spring. But its almost daily practice routine in the Charles River Basin has paid the curious dividend of 12 second places in the 14 regattas raced so far. The last chance to win comes Sunday in the Boston Dinghy Club Championships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Mold A Top Team . . . . . . Without Boats | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

...almost invincible freshman tennis team won again yesterday afternoon, beating the MIT freshmen by a lopsided 8 to 1 score on the Soldiers Field Courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Defeated 8-1 by Freshman Net Squad | 5/19/1949 | See Source »

Merryman is the man who almost singlehandedly beat the varsity last year and the year before. Fortunately for the Crimson, he is no longer playing for Williams--now he coaches the Harvard freshman lacrosse team...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Lacrosse Team Opposes Williams Here Today | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

Neither Rain, nor Snow. In Los Angeles, Postman William E. Lilley Jr., arrested for hiding almost 5,000 undelivered letters in his apartment, explained that "I would just get tired and take some letters home ... I fully intended to deliver them in the due course of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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