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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second University tennis team won from Exeter yesterday afternoon by a 5 to 3 score in a meet featured by unusually close matches. All of the contests except two went to three sets, the last one being called at eight all on account of darkness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1929 NETMEN TO FACE NEWTON HIGH TODAY ON WABAN COURTS | 5/20/1926 | See Source »

...deference to this universal opinion, the CRIMSON has, except under special circumstances, excluded all anonymous communications from publication. On the other hand, if a man is willing to be responsible for his statements, and has a pertinent message, the CRIMSON is glad to extend the courtesy of its columns; the single requirement is a signature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVASION BY ANONYMITY | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

...cities discovered by our expedition the oldest is Okop, some sixty miles form the coast, or much further inland than the others and further south than all except Muyll, which is in about the same latitude. We know by looking at its architecture that Okop is the oldest. Its walls are thicker, the whole construction of its buildings is heavier. When the Mayas first began to build they knew little about the laws governing thrust and strain. Their earliest two-story buildings have the second story set behind the first on a solid mass of masonry. They dared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spinden and Mason, Investigating Mayan Temples, Solve Riddle of Lost Civilization | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

Very little is known of the strength of the Lehigh netmen except that they lost to Princeton. Although the Crimson players are looking for several close matches they expect to emerge victorious, comparative score against Princeton being in their favor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Meets Lehigh | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

...those clubs which make a Boston night quite too awful, did you really go? Well, I tried my best to be friendly with every one and keep on the sidelines, even hoping for a small, size six and a half, B width brawl. But nothing transpired except a gentleman whom I had to drag out of the way of two member of the metropolitan police who thought his the skin they'd love to touch. The music was good. Something had to be. I made Aubrey Beardsley drawings on the table cloth with a gusto possessed recently...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

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