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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another factor in the situation is the location of the common rooms in Lowell House. The Tutors' Room will be behind the high table, and at a considerable distance from the Students' Room. Again, name and position are not considerations of great importance; yet, when contrasted with Dunster House, in which the corresponding rooms are adjacent, and will be called simply "Large" and "Small" common rooms, Lowell House seems to be assuming a needlessly reserved attitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUTTING ON ENGLISH | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...will give an indication as to what may be expected later in the season. The competition will be stiff this year in view of the fact that no team in the leading division has won more than three-fifths of its matches. Most of the teams have two matches behind them and of the 26 players in class. A only ten remain unbeaten and of these but four have won two matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON RACQUET TEAM TO MEET NEWTON TODAY | 12/14/1929 | See Source »

...mind you, objecting to the principle behind the Harvard denizens' actions. But they should have known better. Live and let live. Did the Yale Record attempt to have the Harvard Lampoon punished for stealing the fence? Aren't we all the victims at times of the exorbitancy of bootleggers, ticket brokers, taxi drivers and, I well remember, stock markets? No doubt Yale is now laughing heartily at Harvard's expense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/10/1929 | See Source »

...dead. In another case a Russian woman had nursed, fallen in love with and then buried a wounded U. S. officer. First she tried to misguide the searchers from the grave. When they found it by an ikon and paper flowers, she vainly implored them to leave its contents behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Home from War | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Sons o' Guns. Jack Donahue is an awkward member of the A. E. F. Lily Damita, cinema favorite, is a bonny barmaid he meets behind the lines. In a village painted by Joseph Urban, peopled with an Albertina Rasch peasant ballet, echoing with nice tunes, they enjoy the most amiable war on record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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