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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freshmen may still go out for manager of the Yardling lacrosse team, as more candidates are badly needed. Not only will the competition end within five weeks, but the winner will take complete charge of the Freshman team on its trip to Yale and receive his numerals. A meeting will be held at Dillon Field House at 3 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '42 Lacrosse Manager | 4/18/1939 | See Source »

...scene when it comes to the high-pressure tactics, the money-magnetic propensities, the universally rotten influence of her tutors. Nowhere else do they openly exhibit their wares in the authorized student publications. Nowhere else do they presume to stuff their literature into student mail boxes for months without end, throughout the entire academic session. And nowhere else have they established themselves so securely that they dare embark on campaigns of respectability, making bold appeals directly to parents, whispering twisted words about their services to "maladjusted Freshmen" and kindred confused spirits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tutoring School Racket | 4/18/1939 | See Source »

Three years ago, the Interior Department began to trap beavers, turn them loose in eroded Idaho areas. By the end of last season, some 500 beavers were busily damming streams under Government supervision, by the end of this year more than 1,000 may be at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Government Beavers | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Guernica, Spain; Uncle Pablo, the black sheep, mocks his kindly brother for his liberalism in the civil war; son and daughter are innocently involved in the murder of an anarchist leader; Father Espinosa cannot sell his chemist's shop and escape to France. German bombers sailing overhead end the family row and the Basque city of Guernica at the same time. Young Carlos escapes to Paris where he tells his powerful, grim story to German refugee Author Kesten, and decides not to commit suicide but to sit in judgment on "all the smug, indifferent people on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Novels | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

They are ready today, but the worth of their cures will only be seen with the actions which follow. And America will follow the race, and undoubtedly--for we say this every year--the season will end with the subway series, a Boston dime as opposed to the New York nickel, between the Boston Bees and the Red Sox. For it could happen. The Yankees might be train wrecked, or drafted, or something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMS AND THE FAN | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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