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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houston is by far one of the best players I've ever seen," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schwartz's Letter Praises Houston | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

...homicidal maniac, the technical Hollywood name for someone who kills people, Cagney is pleasantly unconvincing. As a story of criminals and what makes them tick, "White Heat" is more so. But for classical cigarette-in-the-corner-of-the-mouth action, the movie is the best in a long, long time...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

Scholarship is skillfully added to this apparently carefree scheme. Stanford stands high on any scholastic ranking of American colleges and is generally regarded the best in the West. Its faculty salaries have always been large enough to attract top men in all fields. Admission is as tough for Californians as Harvard admission is for Easterners...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: Stanford Cultivates ' School Spirit' and Rallies In Drive to Become 'The Harvard of The West' | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

This spirit is perhaps best shown in rooting. Rooting for a team may be a casual act for an Easterner, but Californians take their cheering seriously. The supreme example of this is the West coast's Big Game--Stamford vs. California. These rivals from different sides of San Francisco Bay have been slugging it out with an intensity matched only by the Harvard-Yale tradition. But the Eastern rivalry is merely a contest between teams; out West, the whole school joins in the fray...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: Stanford Cultivates ' School Spirit' and Rallies In Drive to Become 'The Harvard of The West' | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...sources of American economic ideologies, while William H. Nicholls of Vanderbilt University is informing economists and teachers from all over Europe about the American farm economy. Course in anthropology and sociology, given by Professor Clyde Kluckhohn and Florence Kluckhohn of Harvard, have been attended by many of the best students from Central European countries to who are anxious to know about the developments in that field in Americanca during the years when its study was suspended here...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Student Council Sponsored Salzburg Seminar Explains American Civilization to Europeans | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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