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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Particular attention is called by C. F. Getchell, general manager of the H. A. A., to the following agreement on the Yale application blank: "I hereby agree if I cannot attend the game, to return all tickets allotted to me." Applications for the cheering section are limited to one seal, and such application precludes the right to another seat elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPLICATIONS CLOSE TODAY FOR YALE, HOLY CROSS GAMES | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

...program of the Socialist Party, there is explained an objective and material attitude, which recommends enforcement of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, and definite unemployment relief and labor legislation. The platform may be wrong on some specific points; but it tackles real issues squarely, and a sweeping condemnation cannot be scientifically made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greater Significance | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

...students to the graduate schools who are trying to make up for the time wasted at some college conducted on Dean McConn's principles of nihilism. Time and again from these people is heard the statement "I never knew what study was until I came here". Obviously one cannot like study if he doesn't know what it really is; and an acquaintance with the vitality of knowledge is not possible to those whose pursuit of it has been but a lifeless travesty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MYOPIA HUNTS KNOWLEDGE | 10/30/1928 | See Source »

...self-supporting and must give it a definite title as an indicator to the prospective listener of what it is to be about. Two groups of lecturers are this of necessity excluded from mention; those whose lectures are of real value only if attended consecutively and those who cannot tell the titles of their lectures in advance. As representative of the point of view of this latter group, the Vagabond quotes from a letter in his files from one of the most distinguished professors at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/30/1928 | See Source »

Alice Joyce gave a good show, perhaps the best job that any potent cinema player attempting the stage has done to date. She cannot, as yet, match talents with experienced Manhattan actresses, but gives decided promise. Owen Moore, less good, played sullenly. Both were nervous, appalled by the mass of cinema potentates in the opening audience, purveyors of huge talking picture contracts to players who can talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: In Los Angeles | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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