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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...count of scores was kept in yesterday's grind. The various plays in the Crimson repertoire were run off and Coach Horween called the ball back regularly in order to analyze the carrying out of assignments and to give individual instruction. A thorough drill on offensive and defensive tactics was undertaken, the major emphasis being placed on the former. The Harvard mentor gave out two new plays which were tested in skeleton drill and then under actual fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACKFIELD LINEUP PRESENTS PROBLEM | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

...York City, Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") H. La Guardia, flamboyant campaigner, Wet, contested for the Republican nomination for Mayor with William M. Bennett, Dry. In the count there were nearly four La Guardia votes for every Bennett vote. Yet the total vote cast was not much over 80,000 compared to 714.000 votes cast for Herbert Hoover last November. Democrats used the figure to show how hopeless would be Mr. La Guardia's chances of performing the miracle of defeating silk-hatted Mayor James John Walker. Undaunted, little Mr. La Guardia made answer that he had not tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Primaries | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Engaged. Miss Louise Iselin of Manhattan, daughter of Ernest Iselin, banker (A. Iselin & Co.); to Count Leonardo Mercati of Paris, stepson of Baron Emerich von Pflugl, Austrian representative at the League of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...course will last up to and including Saturday, January 11, 1930, meeting weekly at the Perkins Institute on all Fridays and Saturdays that do not fall within the Christmas recess, with the single exception of the initial session. Students in this course are allowed to count this work as credit towards a degree of Master of Education at Harvard, provided they are of graduate standing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURSE FOR TEACHERS OF BLIND WILL BEGIN TODAY | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

Aside from the Marx brothers, and there are only three of them who count, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico, the show is a better than average musical production. Such a statement is distinctly damning it with faint praise; but it need not worry any one because these gentlemen so overshadow the remaining performers and performances that "the show aside from the Marx brothers" need not even be taken into consideration. They are the evening's entertainment, and better could not be asked. They pull exactly the same sort of gag which they did in "The Cocoanuts...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

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