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Iselin, who is Canadian squash champion, is entering the singles tournament to conform with a rule passed last year by the National Squash Racquets Association providing that at least one member of each team must enter in the singles competition and that this man may not represent his team in the team matches. In the tournament he will be faced by the leading players of the country including H. N. Rawlins '27, present national champion, and J. L. Pool '28, both of whom captained the University team while Seniors at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACQUETMEN ENTER NATIONAL TOURNEY | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

There is no person to whom Harvard College owes more than to her first President, Henry Dunster. A graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and minister of his native village of Bury in Lancashire, he left England at the age of thirty rather than conform to the Laudian reforms. A reputation for learning preceded him; and in August 1640, three weeks after arriving in Boston, he was elected President of Harvard College, by the Board of Overseers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First President of Harvard Gives College Longevity | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...lines have been changed to conform to the modernized externals. The scenery, designed by W. B. Cowen '30, president of the society, is of the modern drape type, and the male members of the cast will appear in cutaways, excepting the butler in tuxedo and the chauffeur who replaces the chair carriers of Moliere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CERCLE WILL OBTAIN MODERN EFFECT IN PLAY WITH TAXIS | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

...your magazine is meant to conform to this ideal, the least that you can do is to print an apology for your article of Oct. 22 and tell your readers what has actually been the career of Dr. Faunce at Brown. He came to the university at the close of a bitter controversy over his predecessor which rendered a large portion of the alumni hostile to the new president. Because of his tact, honesty, and faith in the university, the breach was quickly healed. A natural reserve made it difficult for Dr. Faunce at first to enter into the life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...freshman class have been pledged to sororities and fraternities the work of molding them to type will begin. The freshman will learn soon enough that organizations do not take all kinds of people but that in every one a definite type exists to which each new student must conform if he is to be a popular member inside the group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/22/1928 | See Source »

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