Word: close
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final home game before the Commencement fray with Yale, the Crimson nine will be out for revenge this afternoon when it faces Virginia in a return contest at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field. On its spring trip through the South, Harvard dropped a close one to the Cavaliers...
...current academic year draws to a close, one of the most important bits of unfinished business, from the undergraduate point of view, is the matter of House admissions. The well-justified roar of protest against a condition which makes necessary more than three hundred disappointed applicants, has elicited from Dean Hanford a promise that future Freshman classes will be reduced; but the temporary expedient of associate House memberships was discarded, and for the next few years the problem, apparently, will remain unsolved...
...dining halls; on the steps of New Lecture Hall, in the library,--there arise incidents of an amusing nature. One be-spectacled, stoop-shouldered lad, presumably of the sunima cum variety, was working hard at the long table in a House library recently. His nose was so close to his pen and book that it would have been impossible to insert a hairpin between them. Suddenly he startled the other crammers by rising and closing his book, then made these same laugh by audibly saying: "Ha! Now to begin my studying...
...Last week, resourceful Robert Young made inroads into two other operating companies. He himself was chosen chairman of New York. Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate); and one of his close associates, Cleveland Shipping Tycoon George A. Tomlinson, was elected chairman of 1'ere Marquette...
...into the cattle country northeast of the Salt River Valley of Arizona, where he picked up some good stories, some better photographs. Arizona Cowboys is a belated record of his stay, a book of 160 pages, with eleven brief chapters sandwiched among 34 fine camera studies which range from close-ups of outlaw bulls to shots of magnificent desert scenery...