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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government is a big field, and one that isn't good for everybody, although you might think so at first. This is because the non-honors concentrator, whose plan of study lacks direction, may wallow aimlessly through three years of loosely connected courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government . . . | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

Pitcher Bill Voiselle batted .097 last year, quite a disappointment to the big man. He wanted his average one point lower, to match both the number on his back and his home town, Ninety...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...butter is considerably more expensive than oleo. Margarine, in turn, is normally an unpalatable white. So the butter people, who have been in business longer, have pressured in a mass of laws to keep the margarine industry from coloring its product, for they thought colored oleo could put a big hole in their business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yellow Peril | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

Last year there was a pretty poor turnout for the big race, mainly because the cyclists were racing to Wellesley for the sheer joy of pedaling along the pike. This year is different. Prizes will be provided for the first few places in the entire race, and also for the winners of each of the three main divisions of bicycles--racing touring and balloon tire...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

...big inducement is a Schwinn "New World" bicycle, which will be handed out by Bow Street's Bicycle Exchange to the lucky winner of the race. Just what the victor is supposed to do with the cycle he won the race on is nuclear, but as Hegel says, onward and upward...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

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