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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the old talent in the group was lost at graduation last year, but the prospects of new men from the fall competitions lead the officers to expect a show which will in every respect equal former ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CERCLE FRANCAIS WILL GIVE PLAY IN DECEMBER | 10/9/1929 | See Source »

...begin on Oct. 22, or he might simply have been reviewing with an after-dinner pleasure the events of that day. He had spent part of the morning discussing with a gardener the construction of a new hothouse and later, satisfied that the new house would be the equal of the others in which it is his pleasure to grow pears and grapes, he strolled past the chicken yard toward the park. The chickens, of course, were more his wife's affair than his, but they reflected credit on him - an entirely new species of chickens, called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chalet de Riond Bosson | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Last Saturday-proved a classic example of the desire on the part of small college athletic directors to reline the athletic pocket. There were numerous small college teams which came down from the hills, engaged an equal number of big college teams, and returned with little except a considerably enlarged bank balance. The best that they could have hoped for was that rather unsatisfactory conclusion, the "moral victory". A brief perusal of the scores in the Sunday papers shows that few of them even achieved such heights as that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...public school list Massachusetts high schools supply four, of which Boston Latin may boast two. There are an equal number who received their training in out of state high schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

...appearance of Gilligan in the starting lineup brings back memories of the early games last fall. Few indeed have been the athletes who came to Harvard with a reputation equal to his, yet he remained on the bench throughout the majority of last season. He is now a greatly improved player, however, and if he does not lapse back into the ways of the past, should prove a valuable cog in the Harvard offensive. Gilligan, according to reports, has given up his dashes for the sidelines in favor of following his interference. He is a rugged and shifty ball carrier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

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