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The cold mists of Autumn are beginning to float over Cambridge from the fens in the evenings. On the University farm the sugar beet is being lifted and the sugar beet is being lifted and the harvest stubble is all ploughed up, while the October exams, finished this week, show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cambridge Letter | 10/19/1935 | See Source »

Latin School has a new building in the Boston Fens. Inside is an auditorium seating 2,300 where students last week enacted a pageant of the school's history. Outside is a parade ground where 1,700 boys marched last week in cadet uniforms. But Latin School boys learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Anniversaries | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

Part of the overtone is homeliness: there is a prose poem on turning mattresses and tucking fresh sheets in an old house. Part is swiftness and grace: Mr. Dunnock, before his birds become his angels, skates on the fens like a big bird himself. Part is earthiness: angry yokels plow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Girl into Woman | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

THE SUNKEN GARDEN-Nathalia Crane-Seltzer ($2). With a poet's precision it is told how, on Nov. 23, 1924, the 16-year-old Duchess of Kendal, later to be known as Orena, was cast upon an Afric isle when her yacht was riven with electric bolts from an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Octans and Orena | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

The flip of a coin has given the Jungaleers the slight advantage of being the "home" team. They will occupy the Red Sox dug-out and take the field first. Superstitious Princetonians may look to this break as an omen that the Tigers will maltreat the ball in the slugging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGER BALL GAME A DOPESTERS' PUZZLE | 6/4/1924 | See Source »

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