Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quoting Dr. John Black Johnson, retired dean of the University of Minnesota, the report states that "the 52 per cent of all students who can never become successful . . . would never pass at all but for the use of college outlines or other supplementary aids to study...
...Easter Rebellion of 1916, when the small Irish Republican Army was doggedly twisting the British Lion's tail. A trifle Algeresque, the plot tells how a young Irish patriot (Brian O'Sullivan), suspected of being an "informer" by his mates, is ostracised and in revenge joins the British "Black and Tans." A threatened raid on his former fellows brings him to his senses in time to warn them of it, and lead a counter-attack. Romance winds its way unobtrusively through the story in the person of a lovely Irish colleen (Margaret O'Connor), also a fiery patriot...
Wishing to take a vacation incognito, Britain's popular ex-Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disguised himself, passed through London's thronged Victoria Station, entrained for the Riviera (see p. 21) unrecognized. His disguise: a brown felt hat instead of curled-brim black Homburg...
...Black-haired Organist E. Power Biggs, of Harvard's Germanic Museum, does not have to sigh for the good old days. In the museum's peaceful, arched Romanesque Hall is an organ, the only one of its kind in the U. S., built to the precise specifications of Bach's period.* Last week Organist Biggs, with his facsimile organ, started the second half of a cycle of concerts which will include all of Bach's organ works, played exactly as they might have sounded to Composer Bach himself...
Spotting the Princeton team two goals on the basis of past performances, the unbeaten Crimson team of Captain Skiddy Von Stade, Gay Dillingham, and Ben Forbes fought an uphill battle all the way. The unexpected arrival of Captain Bob Eisner from his home in Indiana bolstered the Orange and Black, the best-mounted team the Poloists have crossed mallets with this year...