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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having lost its two previous games the Freshman basketball team came back into its own again yesterday afternoon when it beat the Tabor Academy team 38 to 21 at the Freshman Athletic Building...
...letter received yesterday by Captain M. J. Brennan, of the police force, the Commission asked him to kidnap the "half starved cats who perch on the back-yard fences" and disturb the sleep of many a Harvard man. The Housing Commission suggested no method by which the cats may be gotten rid of, however, and Captain Brennan said that he was also at a loss to think of a plan of action that might be employed in the war on the felines. He suggested that he might call for volunteers among his men to form a "bean blower squad...
Having lost its last two games, to Worcester Academy and the Dartmouth Freshman respectively, the Freshman basketball team will make an effort today to get back in the winning columns when it opposes the Tabor Academy team at 4 o'clock. The game will probably be played in Hemenway Gymnasium, but there is a possibility of it being held at the Freshman Athletic Building, due to conflicting University team practice...
Simultaneously comes the news that Bryn Mawr girls have succumbed to the temptations of a luxurious Sunday morning breakfast in bed while their Wellesley contemporaries, in order to enjoy a puff of a cigarette prohibited in Wellesley and Natick, are making a daily trip to Boston and back between morning and noon classes, luxuriating in clouds of tobacco smoke and monopolizing the Boston and Albany smokers at the expense of the male passengers...
...marine life and Professor Clark hopes to obtain important information throwing light on obscure phases of the history of Australia. The knowledge obtained on this trip he intends to incorporate with the results of his previous expedition into a unified work on Australian marine life. He expects to bring back many important additions to the University Museum...