Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next fall's meeting will mark the first time that Harvard and Stanford have played football against each other. The Crimson has visited the West Coast once before, though, beating Oregon 7-6 in the 1920 Rose Bowl...
Radcliffe's upper classes will meet in Agassiz Theater today and Friday for the first assemblies of the fall term...
Hexed Barns. The college year had begun (with fewer veterans on the campus); the World Series was on. Department stores showed the new fall styles (cloche hats, swathed hips, and shoes in the style of Louis XV). First graders brought home cutout paper pumpkins...
...Fall, with its memories of the American past, belonged to the country-to Pennsylvania's huge, hex-marked barns, to the aching distances of the Great Plains, to the great old houses, the sharecroppers' shacks and black soil of the Mississippi Delta, to Montana's Bitterroot Mountains and the foaming rivers and screaming headsaws of the Pacific Northwest. Last week, north, south, east and west, the U.S. was a fat and prosperous land...
When a Negro entered the University of Arkansas' law school last semester, its trustees decreed absolute segregation, put him in a separate classroom. Several white students asked permission to join him so that they could bone up away from their own crowded classes. This fall the school permitted its only Negro to attend regular classes, but put a railing around his chair. Last week the trustees bowed to student scoffing at this pretense, ordered the barrier removed...