Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparative emptiness of the Yard on May mornings of these last two years has set all the more into relief the garb of contemporary Seniors. The gowns of the past are still, evidently, purchased; some moved, sparse sombre dots, in the early hours of the first week of May; they massed together before Widener in one grand display for the benefit of Notman's and the Album: then--oblivion. The almost-alumnus is no more to be distinguished from the rest of Harvard than is the sweaterless and letterless athlete...
Other times, other customs is doubtless the excuse. This tradition takes its place along with the ten thousands that the Divisional and the Reading Period have slain. Some Seniors have survived the first, and have gone; some are suffering the second, and stay; in neither case are there classes to attend, and so, reasons the Senior, there is no need of wearing his regalia. Yet this custom is none of the puerile collegiate tricks to which Harvard long since turned thumbs down; it is a dignified and respected tradition, with a long tale of years behind it. The University, becoming...
This year there are nine colleges in the league. Holy Cross and Georgetown are members this year for the first time. The nine colleges have been formed into three groups based upon location. According to this system, all the members of one group play the members of another group on the same day or weekend and thus save the teams from making unnecessary trips...
Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29 had no trouble in vanquishing his opponent, but the visitors gave trouble in most of the other singles matches. Arthur Ingraham, Jr. '30, lost the first set of his match with Cleary of Tech, 5 to 7, and then came back after a hard struggle to take the next...
...first-year race was even less of a contest, for the rough water conditions proved too much for the Tech oarsmen. Harvard jumped them at the start and drew away easily at a 30 stroke-per- minute clip, with their rivals trailing at a-28, until there were two lengths of open water between the boats at the Harvard Bridge. After the mile mark was passed, the engineers started catching crabs which proved fatal to their chances of winning, and a quarter of a mile from the finish the stroke man caught one which temporarily disabled the entire crew, although...