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...their first game of the season, the Jayvee soccer team went down to defeat yesterday afternoon at the hands of the Bradford Durfee Textile team from New Bedford. Despite the goal in the last period by Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '36, the informal game ended 6-1 in favor of the visitors. An early lead was piled up by Cullen which was never seriously threatened. Desmond and Ziobra also starred. The summary: HARVARD BRADFORD Briggs, Wallace, g. g., Steininger Malone, Linde, Engel, r.f.b. r.f.b., Ferris, Reback Fuller, l.f.b. l.f.b., Eagan Ziobra Johnson, r.h.b. r.h.b., Conon Haskell, c.h.b. c.h.b., Zebrasky Scott...
...Score--Bradford Durfee 6, Harvard 1. Goals: Cullen (3), Desmond, Ziobra, Burbank. Referee: Sullivan. Linesmen: Harvey, Bell, and Briggs. Time: four 22-minute periods...
...Roark Bradford has gone the late Joel Chandler Harris one better. Harris' classic Uncle Remus showed the Negro as storyteller, at one remove from his own concerns; in Bradford's tales Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit appear in their own black skins, without disguise. Negrophiles and educated Negroes may object that Author Bradford simplifies too much, sentimentalizes too often, but plain readers like his stories. Marc Connelley's The Green Pastures, founded on Bradford's first book, Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, was the Broadway hit of 1930, won the Pulitzer Prize that...
...Author Bradford's Negro dialect has an authentic ring but is stamped with his own mark. In almost every book he introduces some memorable tag of nigger-talk. In Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun it was: "Soap an' water, country boy"- deep South for Broadway's "Oh, yeah?" In Let the Band Play Dixie it is the almost untranslatable "and de doctor can't do me no good"-an expression denoting joyful determination, usually in the direction of gin or gals. For fittingly strong words to express astonishment: "Well, do, my Redeemer!"* Sample...
Robert Crosset Holcombe '37, of Cambridge, and Neil Gardner Melone '37, of Minneapolis, Minn., were chosen as members of the House committee. Others nominated for the position were John Bradford Bowditch '37, of Concord, William Waite Waters '37, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Joseph Allen Bloombergh '37, of Chestnut Hill...