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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swimmer Bill Kendall's National Intercollegiate record of 4 minutes 46.4 seconds for the 440 yard free-style in a 20-yard pool was accepted yesterday by the National Collegiate A. A. as an official performance. Kendall splashed his way to the new standard on February 23 of this year as the Varsity defeated Springfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kendall Mark Accepted | 5/25/1938 | See Source »

This evening at 8:15 o'clock in the Music Building the Music Club will present its annual free public concert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music Club | 5/25/1938 | See Source »

...anaylsis, and spends his time tearing them apart with specific criticism. This is an excellent section for it shows as clearly as possible the differences between goods poetry and bad, standing side by side and phrase by phrase. But it is unfortunate that the author did not analyze some free verse, which he later criticizes as aimlessness and experimentalism, and show precisely its shortcomings...

Author: By J. G. P., | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/25/1938 | See Source »

...FREE LAND-Rose Wilder Lane-Longmans, Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Landscape with Little Figures | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...others, like Rose Wilder Lane's Free Land, look solidly good to begin with, turn out to contain the sort of black specks that are sometimes found inside the best-appearing small potatoes. Well-written, soberly sentimental, Free Land is the story of a newly-married homesteader in the Dakota territory. Although claim jumpers, land-grabbers, Indians, horse thieves, come into the story, and the hero is attracted by a neighbor's pretty daughter, Author Lane avoids unpleasant human situations as carefully as a dainty pioneer woman avoiding puddles. Blizzards, droughts and cyclones are the main events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Landscape with Little Figures | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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