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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: A University of California alumnus finds it difficult to hold his peace, upon reading, in column entitled "Football," TIME of Nov. 3, the remark that in being defeated by Southern California 41-12 last week, Stanford University suffered "the worst beating any college has ever given Stanford." For your information: on Nov. 19, 1921, at Palo Alto, our Golden Bears-which the Press of that time had dubbed the "Wonder Team"-helped Stanford dedicate its brand-new stadium, barely completed on time for the game, to the tune of a 42-7 victory for University of California. Some...
...notions. Last big affair of this sort was the Schachkta Trial (TIME, July 2 & 16, 1928), broadcast by radio to prove that lazy, clumsy or willfully inefficient engineers or workmen could expect harsh treatment. Hero of these proceedings was Soviet Prosecutor Nikolai Vassilievitch Krylenko. Last week in a 30-column statement which Moscow papers dutifully printed, Comrade Krylenko announced that he would put eight arrested persons on trial for conspiring with non-Bolshevik citizens to seize the State and to make one of the prisoners, a Professor Leonid Ramzin, president of a bourgeois Russian republic...
...Battle of the Bowl, more points will be scored in the Colossal Crater of Connecticut tomorrow than Harvard has scored in the last five games* The majority of these points will find their way into the Crimson scoring column, but the margin of Havard's victory will not exceed three points...
Most frequent and most distressing errors result from the substitution of wrong vowels. But according to Mergenthaler Linotype Co., a practiced operator not too severely pressed will make only three or four mistakes to a newspaper galley (approximately a 20 in. column of type lines...
...letter printed in this column defending the present policy of the Harvard Dramatic Club to produce modern plays with popular appeal states that the purpose of the club is primarily to afford the undergraduates an "opportunity to get some practical experience on the stage before large audiences." Although it is not within the province of the CRIMSON to decide the motives of this club, it is obvious that such a policy is certainly out of keeping with the laudable intentions of this organization in former years, and that, followed to its logical conclusion, such a plan can only lead...