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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present system of electing Freshman class officers leaves much room for comment and criticism. Called on to choose their officers early in the academic year, the Freshmen have no sound basis on which to rest their decision, and often elect men whose efforts on the football field or track have gained for them a certain degree of popularity, but who may not be truly representative of the best elements in the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECTIO AD ABSURDUM | 11/17/1934 | See Source »

...Geraldine Farrar. In Los Angeles an impoverished, cancer-ridden man who once had been her husband had gone into a bathroom, stood before a mirror and stabbed himself seven times with a pair of common sewing scissors. Reporters telephoned Miss Farrar at her Ridgefield, Conn. home, asked for comment on Lou Tellegen's death. Her reply was characteristically candid: "Why should that interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Announcer | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

Incidentally, no comment was forthcoming from Bill Bingham yesterday on this momentous schedule question. Nothing definite can be decided until the Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sports meets on December 3. But the chances are that Holy Cross will not be on the list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHUMANN LIKELY TO START AT LEFT GUARD SATURDAY | 11/9/1934 | See Source »

H.A.A. officials declined to comment on Navy's addition of Yale to its schedule in 1935, which came in an announcement from Annapolis last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holy Cross to Be Omitted From '36 Harvard Football Schedule | 11/8/1934 | See Source »

Another feature of the book is the introduction, composed of literary comment which ordinarily would appear at the end of the book in the form of notes. The quotations in this introduction, together with the compiler's remarks, combine in an informal and pleasantly rambling discourse which stimulates the reader's interest in the text to which it applies. Reading it, we can almost hear Mr. Copeland conversing in his old study in Hollis on a score of literary matters that come to mind in the course of an easy talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Copeland Translations," New Anthology, Called Ideal by Hillyer | 11/8/1934 | See Source »

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