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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale to win the November 23 classic. Too many things can happen before then. Head Coach Horween of Harvard has a job on his hands to lay his plans for a successful assault against Holy Cross next Saturday, without jeopardizing the prospects against Yale, but Harvard has been through four hard-fought games on the last four Saturdays and there is less of a mental strain this week for the Crimson than there is for Yale in pointing for its traditional clash with Princeton. One reason for this happy state of affairs--from a Harvard viewpoint--is that the Holy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARENS LOOKS FOR WIN AGAINST BLUE | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

...remain for Captain Barrett and his men before the Big Blue team invades Cambridge. There remains much to be done, particularly in rounding out the offense, but the Michigan game produced a higher caliber of play by a Harvard team than has any other major game during Horween's four years at Cambridge Harvard was beaten at Ann Arbor, it is true, but it came back from the first trip to "Big Ten" territory with a heads-up attitude, and if left behind a profound respect for the work that Horween has accomplished. I have criticized Harvard teams that Horween...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARENS LOOKS FOR WIN AGAINST BLUE | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

...Four foreign astronomers, directors and staff members of observatories in Canada, Norway, Holland, and Poland, have arrived at the Harvard Observatory to carry on researches in a number of fields, it was announced yesterday. Five men visiting from other nations have just left after pursuing their researches with the aid of the Observatory staff, it was also learned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR ASTRONOMERS COME FOR RESEARCH | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

...with seven hundred in History 1, most of the "professor-and-student-on-a-log" doctrine of which Mark Hopkins was wont to dream, seems to be relegated to the limbo of unattainable idealism. Yet these two courses are but collssi among a race of giants. With four other courses attracting more than five hundred men apiece, the gap between the fountain head of learning and the disciple grows immeasurably wide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

...house" Madame. Her name was Big Maude. Unlike her kind, she was not a fighter, could not beat policemen. She was genteel, of noble English descent (her story), and wise. She charged more for drinks than any of her competitors. The miners and farmers marveled at the way her four girls dressed. Big Maude asked Taylor Gordon to work for her. He agreed, ran errands for the girls, served drinks, wore brass buttons and blue coat, received good wages, liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highbrown Highbrow | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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