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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectators went down from Cambridge for the game. A large group on the Friday night train found a cheering Brown contingent awaiting them at Providence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Tallied Technical Knockout Over Elis in Historic Opening Clash | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...their records there is little to choose out on the Business School at 2 o'clock today. Harvard beat Princeton 1-0, while the Tiger consumed the Bull dog 4-1. Yale outshone Harvard against Dartmouth. Yale held Brown as Harvard did. Yale has an airtight defense. Harvard has forward line snipers. But because the Blue has won the past two years, and still has former stars in its lineup it must rule favorite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson and Blue Booters Clash in Little World Series this Afternoon with Nothing to Choose | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

...parents described the boy as being about five feet eight inches tall, 169 pounds in weight, 21 years old, with blue eyes and wavy, light brown hair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARENTS OF MISSING LAW STUDENT APPEAL FOR NEWS | 11/18/1937 | See Source »

...Brown's Poem Successful...

Author: By Walter E. Houghton jr., | Title: On The Rack | 11/17/1937 | See Source »

...poetry, Mr. Brown's "Hey of the Last Sheperd" is an ambitious and, on the whole, successful job. Rhythmically it moves with sureness (as his other poem in the issue does not); the texture is close, and while the poem is long, it builds up solidly. Under the primary influence of the later Yeats--in particular, I think, of "The Second Coming"--Mr. Brown has tried for the compression and suggestiveness of symbolist poetry. The difficulties of such a technique are great. In stanza 4 the strained Apollo-Daphne pattern of symbols sticks out like a bad metaphysical conceit; while...

Author: By Walter E. Houghton jr., | Title: On The Rack | 11/17/1937 | See Source »

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