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...total war which the Crimson urged from the beginning of its campaign has been launched against the tutorial schools. There can be no mistaking the intention back of the rule which the Faculty passed yesterday making a student who patronizes a tutoring school "liable to disciplinary action." The half-way reforms and the moral disapproval hastily improvised last year have been reinforced by a vote recognizing that the value of a Harvard degree is impaired by the existence of shops where money substitutes for the cost of intellectual labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCIPLINARY ACTION | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

Rochester, it seems, had been in Boston before. "Where's Scollay Square? You know why they put the Old Howard there, don't you?" he queried. "They tell me 'cause its jes' half-way between Harvard Square and the Navy Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oh, Harvard, Where Dat Smokah? Is Rochester's Cry After MIT Abduction | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

...Dramatic Club play. "The Ascent of F6," is "risque," but only from the actors' point of view. In the course of it, one man is killed by an avalanche, and another commits suicide by jumping off a cliff. In addition, there is a free-for-all fight about half-way up the "mountain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOUNTAIN CLIMBING ACTORS SEEK ACCIDENT INSURANCE | 4/23/1940 | See Source »

...biggest upset was Emery Wingerter's performance. The Cornell Senior cannily rated himself well off the pace in the early stages of the run, worked himself up into first shortly after the half-way mark, and blasted across the finish line three seconds ahead of Yale's Bill Watson...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Unbeaten Harriers Share Ivy League Victory With Cornell | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

This underground sentiment has not gone unheeded, for if the library is made of stone, certainly its administrative staff is not. They have realized this student demand for longer library hours and have made half-way attempts to remedy the situation. For example, Boylston Reading Room--which, together with other specialty collections, is as much a part of the University Library as Widener itself--has been kept open all Saturday afternoon and evening. Formerly it was closed at one o'clock on Saturdays. Thus it is now open seven days in the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATES ALIKE | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

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