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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coach Farrell had laid the foundation for the brilliant 1925 season, a which it can truly be said that Harvard track has never reached a higher point than it did in the Triangular meet on Saturday night, February 28. When it was all over Coach Farrell said, "I have never seen a better Harvard track team. I have never seen a finer group of men than made up that team." At a dinner at the Varsity Club on the night of Thursday, February 20, he had previously said to both the University and Freshman track squads. "I'm sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Triumphs Add Lustre to Triangular Meet History | 2/21/1928 | See Source »

Philip L. Kale's Aphrodite of the Sea Gulls, a large canvas and well hung, was possibly the most striking picture in the show, not for its originality,: so much as for a brilliant and airy prettiness. The surprising tangle of branches streaked with light in Ross E. Draught's Dead Chestnut gave the tree as much character as a face. William M. Paxton had sent in three portraits, for one of which he got the Beck Gold Medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: On View | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

Repeatedly defeated at the polls, Disraeli finally turned Tory, and slipped into Parliament through the influence of one of his many women friends. His too brilliant maiden speech was booed. But an Irish opponent, impressed, advised him: "Get rid of your genius for a session. . . . The House will not allow a man to be a wit and an orator, unless they have the credit of finding it out." He gave them the opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dizzy | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...outburst of speed and brilliant skating S. L. Batchelder '31, the Freshman leader, got through the Green defense unassisted for three goals, A fourth time he was chased past the net and Garrison took the rebound for another score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SKATERS DOWN GREEN SEXTET 6-2 IN ARENA | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...track season well under way and one of the outstanding meets, the Cornell-Dartmouth-Harvard Triangular classic, just a few days off, a rapid summary and review of Triangular meet history will serve both to recall some of the greatest of Crimson track athletes and to reveal the brilliant record established by the immediate successors of the present team which faces one of its severest tests on Saturday evening, February 25. For when the University track team meets its two traditional foes, Cornell and Dartmouth, in the tenth Triangular meet in the Arena, it will bear the responsibility of maintaining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History of Triangular Track Classic Antedates America's Entrance in War | 2/17/1928 | See Source »

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