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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving its home stamping grounds for the first time this year, the Varsity basketball team, with four members of the class of '42 on the starting five, meets a strong Brown aggregation this evening in Providence...
...Rothschild, six foot two Sophomore, will start his first game tonight, replacing at center the injured Homer Peabody, who will be out till after Christmas at the very least. Rothschild played most of the game against North-eastern Thursday, and his performance then earned him the right to be in the starting lineup against the Bruins...
...there is no doubt by this time that Director Erford Gage has an experienced knowledge of what constitutes good theatre--even though he lets slip some clumsy moments in the first act bridge scene. Stage Manager Hildon Cooper probably has budget troubles, but he relies on simplicity for his effectiveness. These stock productions are always a bit rough and sometimes they are even crude, but they've got something more than finish: the proper attitude toward the theatre...
...glitter of the Christmas vacation, but hanging heavy over that are the dark clouds of Judgment Time. And so--particularly among Freshmen--there are beginning to appear the usual cases of pre-exam intellectual indigestion. Sometimes this is the result of a real hazy indetermination as to what the first semester was all about; among Freshmen more often it is a psychopathic feat that Harvard is, after all, a very hard place, too hard to get through without special medicine...
Whatever the reason for these mental illnesses, the greatest danger lies in the lure of fake remedies; for the sick man is an all-too-easy victim of the first best quack who happens to cross--and bar--his way; he believes in miracles as the drowning man believes in his straw. Harvard has its quack doctors in plenty, its tutoring schools perched along Massachusetts Avenue. Sick people flock in, sick people flock out. Liberal education at its best...