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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large force of men are employed each night to sweep up the cigarettes, the Yard presents a tempting nicotine dump for the greater part of the day. To squelch ugly rumors that elder squirrels are about to report this condition to the A.S.P.C.A. and the Sanitation Department, we must begin a campaign to eliminate the cigarette from squirrel culture. Several plainly marked, strategically placed butt cans and a conscientious effort on the part of the student body to keep their cigarettes off the ground would save the squirrel from the fate of the buffalo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Butts to the Squirrels | 10/24/1946 | See Source »

...glance at the Holy Cross roster, taken apart from its 1946 performance, will make it hard for any football follower to understand how the Crusaders have dropped three of their first four games this season. Another glance, and you begin to understand why the Crimson Varsity is facing what is easily its most rugged opposition of the current season on Saturday afternoon...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/24/1946 | See Source »

...systems, one democratic, the other totalitarian, one depending on the secret ballot, the other on secret police. Let no sophistry, no errors of government in our free society blind you to this distinction. Look at the whole balance sheet of America, not just a single detail, before you begin to disparage America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Address to Beginners | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...time hero & heroine begin to wriggle out of the underworld's clutches, the unwinding plot is too glib and fast to follow. So are the sociological overtones of the young couple's last-reel decision to starve in an artist's garret rather than gorge in a butler's pantry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 21, 1946 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Apparently the manly art of grappling is due for an upswing of interest during the months to come. Although official practice will not begin until after the Yale football game, already members of this winter's grunt and groan squad are getting into shape on the Indoor Athletic Building mats, and reports emanating from all corners of the University indicate that the team will not lack talent...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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