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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pitcher received ragged support from his teammates. The visitors outhit the Cambridge combination, collecting nine safe hits off the offerings of J. S. Cunningham '29, but failed to make their hits count. No Dean man connected for more than a single throughout the game. Cunningham was never in danger except in the sixth frame when he allowed four hits, and one run was scored. Hillary and McCabe led the Dean offense with two safe singles apiece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND BASEBALL TEAM DOWNS DEAN ACADEMY | 5/8/1928 | See Source »

...with examinations and monitors and lectures and conferences is that too often they serve as lightining-arresters, diverting the current of knowledge away from the student instead of into the very fibre of his being. Before they can be junked there will have to be eliminated from college all except those who have a serious purpose to study and learn. And before that can be done we shall have to rid ourselves of the false notion that a college degree is a badge of social eminence. Judge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Privileged Classes | 5/8/1928 | See Source »

...flesh at the base of the little finger of his right hand. One English sports writer said that the match ought to be postponed. Hagen wanted it postponed himself. He explained that he had come all the way from Los Angeles in twelve days, and that except for that one day at Moor Park he hadn't had any practice except a few balls which he drove off the roof of his hotel into the Thames, and that he had been acting in the cinema all winter. Told that he would have to play anyway, he hired a detective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hagen Drubbed | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Castle Heights Military Academy, at Lebanon, Tenn. What could have been Bernarr Macfadden's motive in this act, few could say. He himself announced that his friend, Lieutenant William Goodson of the U. S. Army, would run the school much as it has been run in the past, except that its curriculum would include several courses in "physical culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Three Sinners. There are more than three sinners. In fact, all the leading characters, except the little child, sin. But they do it nicely. Pola Negri, as the wife of a German count, takes a train from Berlin to Vienna, meets a musician, stops off to spend a night of love. Soon she hears that her train was wrecked before it reached Vienna and that she was reported dead. So, seizing opportunity by the hair, she puts on a snow white wig, changes her name, becomes a woman of adventure. Later, her husband meets her, does not recognize her; cinemagoers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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