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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrangements had been changed, and that we had to live at the Fire Station in the most vile discomfort. In fact things got so impossible we all resigned in a body, but improvements were promised and are actually in hand, so that I suppose gradually conditions will improve. The first night I slept on a table, but now on a camp bed & a sleeping bag, as, after being perfectly sickeningly hot, it has turned icy cold. We are five in a room, but hope that will be altered as there is no room to move and until I went home...
Yesterday night, as I was beginning to read, in the French translation, the first chapter of the sixth part of Jakob Burckhardt's excellent work Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien, one of my sons, who is always first to read TIME on arrival, entered my library visibly in a passion and there was in his voice a ring of indignation...
...first half touchdown marches coupled with stubborn defensive work brought victory, 13 to 6, for Coach Henry Lamar's spirited Jayvee eleven in a game with the Northeastern Freshmen yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...
...scoring came in the first half, and after the intermission the game developed into a punting duel with neither team penetrating beyond the enemy twenty-five yard line...
With six minutes gone in the first quarter, the Lamarmen racked up the first tally on an off-tackle smash by "Squibby" Squibb from the seven yard line. A sixteen yard run by Mel Gordon brought the ball into scoring position. Feary's kick for the point was good...