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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial situation. Harvard offers in the inter-house athletics a substitute with much merit of its own, and which could be well extended to include many of the features that make the minor sports valuable. Furthermore, the endowment, which both schools of thought believe essential, must begin somehow, and somewhere. It is incidental, yet of some importance, that the slashing done in such a prominent place may help to bring in outside money; and this in turn might well make for the earlier return of those very sports...
...minor sports are now the most practicable place to begin the policy of the H.A.A. living within its income (which includes both what it makes and what it gets from the college) and of building up an endowment. If the undergraduate mandate is strong enough, it may then be time to begin to search for major sports which can be shaved...
London, Tuesday, April 30--The Daily Herald's foreign editor in today's issue reports that six of the 12 new German super-submarines complete in every detail and fully manned, already are afloat. They are ready to begin practice maneuvers off Wilhelmshaven, he said...
Then there is also the threat of Japan. Indeed, whenever any industry suffers inexplicable losses in the domestic market, astute politicians hasten to Washington, and, aided by Mr. Hearst, begin to invoke the deity of nationalism against the wicked and cunning Japanese. Yet despite their furor, figures for 1933 demonstrate that the only imports from Japan of any significance are raw silk, tung oil, and fancy crab meat...
...struggles between Eliot and Dunster and between Adams and Leverett batsmen, while racquetmen from Dunster and Brooks, Eliot and Winthrop, will play on the Business School courts. The first-mentioned tennis teams will play at 3 o'clock, the others at 4.30 o'clock. Both ball games are to begin at 3.15 o'clock...