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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skippy and Huckleberry Finn were far less profitable exhibitions than their producers intended them to be. Whether what are known, in the trade, as "kid pictures'' will continue to be made will therefore depend to some extent on the box office reception accorded Sooky which is handicapped by having no concern with sex or fear. Good shot: Skippy and Sooky securing a load of fuel for Sooky's mother by molesting the fireman on a train so that he throws lumps of coal at them...
...question of building a rink for University teams in Cambridge is also urgent. Only necessity can justify the use of the Boston Garden. The Athletic Association has to depend too much on a wholly commercial enterprise. Its schedules must be made out so as not to conflict with the many other lessees of the Garden. The expense is so great that only the first string teams can practice there. And for the majority of games, it is far larger than is necessary. Furthermore the distance removes the sport from its true relation to the University life...
...arranging a winter-schedule and providing facilities for coaching, the Athletic Association has done its part well. It cannot be too strongly emphasized, however, that inter-House activities of every kind depend for their success primarily on undergraduate interest. They cannot survive as hot-house products. In practice, as far as athletics are concerned, this means essentially that House captains must accept the responsibility of organizing their respective teams...
...when athletic interest at Harvard will be directed cheifly to Houses is still distant. Its coming will depend on the creation of a tradition of competition which cannot grow up over night, but which will be greatly helped or hindered by the efforts of the various teams this year...
...doubtful whether even 150 rubbers will prove anything as to comparative merits, since the result must also depend upon the distribution of the cards, the skill of the players. Both Culbertson and Lenz will get a great deal of advertising, and all bridge teachers will profit by having two systems to teach their pupils. Public interest in the match may also assist contract to withstand the onslaught of back: gammon as a leading indoor sport...