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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Basketball practice for men of 1923 will now take place every day of the week except Saturday, from 4 until 5 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium, replacing the former schedule running on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday afternoons. It is hoped that before Christmas it will be possible for the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Practice Every Day | 12/4/1919 | See Source »

The system of instruction includes a moving picture theatre, which shows how the world's best athletes perform; the pictures are slowed down so that every movement is clearly visible. After seeing the films the students are taken to the camp grounds, where they receive individual instruction. The system has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA TO COMPETE IN GAMES | 12/2/1919 | See Source »

The 1922 soccer team wound up its season on Saturday by tieing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology players, 1-1, in a very evenly-balanced game. All of the scoring came in the second half. A brilliant rally on the part of the yearlings in that period carried the ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1923 Soccer Team Ties M. I. T. | 12/1/1919 | See Source »

"But the trouble with this," explained the great political economist, "was that it wasn't tough enough for the readers' taste. So a novel developed that was staged in the open, where the heroine was always Miss Middleton--always the Miss." Mr. Leacock went on to describe the hair-breadth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WORST IS YET TO COME, SAYS LEACOCK | 11/29/1919 | See Source »

The speaker quoted the climactic words, "'Kate,' he said, 'Do you know what I was thinking when you were half-way down that cliff? I was thinking that if the rope had broken I would be very sorry,' 'So would I, answered Miss Middleton."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WORST IS YET TO COME, SAYS LEACOCK | 11/29/1919 | See Source »

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