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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock in one of the House dining-rooms. At a long table seven carefree inmates awaited their soup. A respected economist and senior tutor seated himself in the vacant eighth place and also waited. But while the undergraduates were patient, he was clearly uneasy. He looked at his watch and groomed his pencil for singing the yellow slip in record time. But no yellow slip appeared. His face contorted with agony as the minutes passed. Finally, seeing an idle waitress across the room, he snatched up his napkin and rushed to her table. Over his shoulder he explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/9/1935 | See Source »

...Jayvee game was simply a case of too much New Bedford. Even with some of Jack Carr's Varsity substitutes in the scrimmage, the home team was forced to a defensive role against a team out of their class. Jim Thackera scored for Harvard in the eighth period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1939 BOOTERS TROUNCE WORCESTER ACADEMY | 11/7/1935 | See Source »

...eight pieces will be included in the program which the Glee Club will give at the first Tercentenary Celebration at Sanders Theatre on Friday, November 8, on the occasion of the two hundred and ninety-ninth anniversary of the founding of the college and the three hundred and twenty-eighth anniversary of the birth of John 'Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB CONCERT IS SCHEDULED NOVEMBER 8 | 10/22/1935 | See Source »

Both indoor and outdoor matches will be held against various college and regimental teams. Last year at the intercollegiates in New Haven Harvard Finished eighth in a field of sixteen, but expects to do much better this season according to Watts. The Yale match should be of unusual interest, since last year Harvard beat the Elis by one point in the outdoor meet but lost to them in the indoor match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIFLE CLUB ENVISAGES INCREASED MEMBERSHIP | 10/9/1935 | See Source »

...dozen shots at the goal but he counted with three others. Gerald Balding, at No. 2, had a hard time turning the speedy Aurora attack but he got away for two goals and Whitney made another which put Greentree ahead, 6-to-4. By the end of the eighth chukker, Aurora had tied the score and the teams came out to play again-a "sudden-death" period, ending whenever either made a goal. At the end of the period, Hitchcock picked up the ball near the sideboards, flicked it to Balding, who passed to Bostwick. Bostwick's shot split...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Open to Greentree | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

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