Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, Olson studied at Yale in 1932-33 as an Olin Fellow in English. In 1933-34 he worked on his Melville project, one chapter of which, "Lear and Moby Dick," has been published. After two years on the faculty of Clark University in Worcester, he came to Harvard as a staff member and graduate student...
About 25 Sophomores and Juniors reported to Coach Dick Harlow and his aids in Briggs Cage yesterday afternoon to swell the total number of participants in this spring's football drills to 65. For Captain Torby Macdonald, the first squad practice simply meant a switch over from his last week's coaching duties to his regular spot as Crimson No. 1 tail back...
Today's the day! At four o'clock Sophomores and Juniors descend upon Dick Harlow and his aids to add to the number of Freshman football hopefuls who have already been going through their paces for a full week in Briggs cage...
Since 1919-the Herman Melville centennial-the "Melville Revival" has provoked several biographies, some 500 essays, a flood of new Melville editions (54 U. S. and English editions of Moby Dick alone), and a consuming curiosity about Melville's scantily documented life. Biographers' main source material has been Melville's "autobiographical" novels. From these comes the portrait of the brooding, misanthropic philosopher and mystic, who went to sea in flight from suicide, won brief success with his South Seas romances (Typee, Omoo, et a/.) and Moby Dick, died a forgotten man after 20 bitter last years...
...really sensational feat of the evening was provided by Princeton's incorrigibly fast medley team. Breaking its own American and unofficial world's record for the 12 laps. Al Van de Weghe, Dick Hough, and Hank Van Oss turned in the unbelievable time of 2:51.9. It is calculated that Van de Weghe did his 100 in 59.2, Hough the breastroke leg in 59.3, and Van Oss the free-style century in 53.4 to hang up a record that is likely to stand for many years...