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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...temple, its baleful influence followed him to Sussex where, one evening, he was discovered lying across his desk, his throat slit. The figurine had disappeared as well as a Malay kriss which he used for a paper weight. Then Jack Derrick, who loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait of the late Millicent found a spectral voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...contemporary writer has been going around to find if the rah-rah stuff is fading out of college sports. He finds that it is. Well, perhaps the enthusiasm in the stands "ain't what it used to be," but that does not mean that a supreme effort on the part of Captain Reid's team would not be appreciated in a quiet manner by the present-day undergraduates. On paper the die is cast against Harvard; on the cinders, in the shot, discuss and hammer circles and in the jumping and vaulting pits the story may be something else again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARENS PREDICTS YALE WIN, GIVES HARVARD CHANCE | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

With an impressive record of nine victories and only one defeat behind them, the Dartmouth diamond forces will come to Cambridge today in an attempt to wallop the already faltering Crimson ball tossers. The game which is set for 4 o'clock should find the Hanoverians at their peak with their undefeated hurling ace Hollstron on the mound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDEFEATED GREEN HURLER FACES NINE ON SOLDIERS FIELD | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

...should, furthermore, be remembered that the swing from course to tutorial work is not likely to benefit any one but honors candidates. The student who has not sufficient scholastic ambition to try for honors will but rarely find a larger opportunity for unprescribed work of advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOU CAN TEACH SOME OF THE PEOPLE... | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

...reduction in the time allotted to graduate students in Hemenway in order to give the class teams more opportunity for practice. This seems absolutely necessary in view of the growing undergraduate interest in the sport but it will work a very real hardship on a class of men who find little enough chance as it is for exercise and recreation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NET PROFIT | 5/21/1929 | See Source »

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