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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's two goals came as the result of a kick in the first period by D. M. Frame '32, assisted by Dirk Bodde '30, and a long, hard kick by H. H. Broadbent '32, in the fourth stanza. Three of Amherst's scores were made when the ball bounced from Harvard players into the Crimson's won net. The Amherst team, however, outplayed Harvard and put the Crimson on the defense for most of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY BOOTERS DROP FIRST CONTEST | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

...fact that he was eleven years at sea with the Royal Navy, and once commanded H. M. S. Meiampus, wears his trousers creased down the side, sailor fashion, to this day (see cut). As a "midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried a small ivory-handled dirk, emblem of the fact that he was neither an enlisted man nor yet an officer privileged to wear a sword. As British midshipmen still do, he always car ried when on duty a bright brass telescope, which, uncollapsed, was three-quarters as tall as himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sprats and the Coxswain | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...trick the would be inheritors, who licked his hands for the delicious death sweat. Since then "Volpone" has been through the adaptation of Stefan Sweig and the translation of Ruth Langner. Even now, in the buzz of Mosca the Gadfly, the pandering servant who wins gold for Volpone to dirk him in the end with his own weapons of pen, ink and attested parchment, one can recognize that wise hardness that was to stiffen the ease of Elizabethan lyricism...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

University--J. P. Faude '31, g.; Louis Kerness '29, l.f.b.; W.D. Carler '31,. c.h.b.; A. S. Rudd '29, r.h.b.; E. J. Grover '31, o.l.; J. W. Carrigan '31' i.l.; Dirk Bodde '30' c.f.; W. D. Vogel 30, l.r.; E. C. Tatham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SOCCER TEAM LEAVES FOR YALE GAME | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

Among the paintings on exhibition are several interiors by Pieter de Hooch; a portrait and an interior by Terborch; a banquet scene by Dirk Hals; landscapes by Hobbema and Ruisdael, and a portrait by Antonio Moro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOGG MUSEUM EXHIBITS WORKS OF DUTCH MASTERS | 4/20/1928 | See Source »

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