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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council has recruited 350 volunteers in an attempt to better the college wide charity drive record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 350 Volunteers Will Work on Combined Charities Campaign | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

Although the editors defined the type of material they were looking for in vague terms, interest to the students was stated as the prime consideration. The humor, which was to be different from that of any present College publication, was described by Shafer as an attempt to get away from the Lampoon style. The poetry was "definitely not to be esoteric," but on a simpler plane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of Stories Threatens Release of New Magazine | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...first attempt to gather student opinion in the current controversy over the decline of Harvard football, the CRIMSON will conduct a poll today in all dining halls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Give Grid Opinion In Poll Today | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...Railroad Museum, placed in the tiled-floor room when the Library was built, doesn't attempt to deal with the complete history of railroading. But it contains examples of rails dating back to the start of steam transportation, as well as exhibits like ancient passes and valuable sketches of actual engines...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Railroad Museum Shows Rise Of American Train Travel | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

This latest attempt to cover the subject of John L. Lewis in one volume makes exciting, highly colorful reading. It draws on interviews more than anything else for its facts, and thus gains a high degree of emotional impact in describing the conflicts that have always surrounded the big, ham-handed UMW boss...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: 'Something of a Man' | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

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