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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first championship in 1921. Newton took the title the following year. In 1923 the schools were divided into two classes, and Medford won class A, tying the next year with Brockton. Taking the meet in both following years, Brockton retained the title longer than any other school has done. The chief trophy of the meet is the Harvard Cup, which must be won five years before it goes permanently to the winning school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIGH SCHOOL TRACKMEN TO COMPETE IN STADIUM | 6/2/1928 | See Source »

...simple solution of an administrative problem. In the eternal choice between brawn and brain as the dominant force in American universities. Harvard has gone on record that she will not be stampeded into the current craze for bigger and better stadia. In assuming the position she has done more than this; she has set a definite limit to the advance of one of two forces. This step may or may not have far-reaching results, but at least it has put the University in a firm and individual position in the line of march...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CORPORATION VOTES | 6/1/1928 | See Source »

...force of rescuers marched in pursuit of the captive. A frontal assault upon the New Haven police headquarters, covered by a brief barrage of brick-bats, was repulsed with the loss of several more prisoners. Still unqualified, the student forces dispatched skirmish parties to create a diversion. This was done effectively by the turning in of a false fire alarm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Street-Sweeper Provokes Yale Men to Defiance of Law and Order in New Haven--Police Are Bearded on "Bottle Night" | 5/31/1928 | See Source »

...days did emerge from the general deluge to cheer those who were beginning to have visions of forty days ceaseless rain. The natural impulse under those circumstances was to don white flannels, exhume racket and spheroids, and travel as swiftly as possible to Soldiers Field; and exactly this was done by students whose number might without exaggeration be described as a throng...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RACQUET CLUB | 5/31/1928 | See Source »

...students. For what less than a gift of the gods is the arrival in Boston during the weeks that lectures are suspended of such an abundance of dramatic offerings as the present spring has produced? That crusader for the better things of the theater. Walter Hampden, has already done successful battle with Shakespeare, Then and Browning and departed for other regions. Eva in Gallienne, leader of the New York Civic Repertory Theater, sill touches the tragic depths at the Hollis, and to descend a moment from the sublime, last night saw the opening of Able's Irish Rose with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT PLAYGOER | 5/29/1928 | See Source »

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