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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the freshmen sextet will travel up to Exeter in an attempt to better its six-and-three record at the expense of the always-powerful prep school squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet Opens League Action Tonight at Princeton Rink | 2/14/1948 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House gets its second University-wide blood drive rolling today as campaigning in House and Union dining halls will attempt to line up 200 Crimson pints by the time the state Blood Bank visits Cambridge on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Opens Drive Today to Muster 200 Blood Donors | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...lecture is the first of a series sponsored by the United Nations Council which will attempt to survey the fundamentals of the international situation through four specific approaches: theoretical, political, economic, and psychological...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friedrich Begins UN Talks Tonight | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

...This article marks the inauguration of a new Crimson editorial feature. It is intended, in the first place, to provide more complete coverage of various extra-curricular organizations and events than has been accomplished in the past. In the second place, the feature will attempt to present the sort of informal, personal view of the various activities that is impossible under the restrictions customary to unsigned news stories. Consequently, 'The Walrus Said' will express the views and impressions of the authors, and will not necessarily represent the opinion of the Crimson...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: Within the Council's Smoky Chambers | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

Hubble's discovery threw top-level science into confused arguments which are still raging. For various reasons (besides "common sense"), the idea of an exploding universe gave sober scientists goose-pimples. But every attempt to reason the theory away raised even more serious problems. Since Hubble had seen so much with the 100-inch telescope (whose range is 500 million light-years), the astronomers simply had to see still farther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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