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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University basketball team which will face Boston University in Hemenway Gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock in the first clash of the season is small in size, but fast and shifty. B. U. will probably have a considerable advantage over the Crimson in height but the Harvard team looks smooth and aggressive with a great deal of speed...
...competition leads to the three positions of manager and assistant manager of the Freshman Hockey team, and dormitory manager. The first two positions carry with them numerals. The successful men will take charge of the trip to Yale which ends the season on March...
...members of the Class of 1930 will receive today from the Alumni Placement Service a questionnaire constituting the first attempt in four years to determine what callings Harvard men intend to follow and where they expect to pursue them. It asks the Seniors to divulge their inmost desires and plans for the careers upon which they will embark in June, and is prepared for the purpose of collecting information necessary for the effective permanent employment of Seniors next spring...
...technically true, but permit me to state that the examination took place on December 9 and the thesis is due on December 20, giving a span of eleven days. Finally, your article describes a question on the examination as "covering one fourth of the time treated in the first half year." This statement is not exactly clear to me, but I fear it may give rise to an erroneous impression. The subject-matter of the question was discussed in two lectures out of more than thirty, and constituted about one fifth of one reading assignment...
...Davison '06 and G. W. Woodworth '24 will conduct the concert. Dr. Davison will lead in a group of three songs by Handel, performed for the first time with orchestra in the United States; six "Liebeslieder" and "Neue Liebeslieder", by Brahms, to be sung by a special mixed chorus of 50; and "Cantata Number 50", for double chorus and orchestra, by Bach. Woodworth will direct "Antiphon Number Five from Five Mystical Songs", by Vaughan Williams, and the "Hymn of Jesus", composed by Gustav Holst. The latter work is being given its first public performance in Boston...