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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characters" and clowns aplenty abroad on the Cambridge scene who are notorious as such and whose careers have been nothing but slightly sublimated vaudeville shows. These Mr. Cromarty may well attack with a barrage of personalities since they offer no other qualities for consideration, but the article at hand does not deal with such a person and is, as a result, altogether deplorable. The author evidently realized his lapse from propriety both academic and journalistic when he signed himself discreetly with a nom de plume. Such anonymity must be deserved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEEBE FINDS ADVOCATE SOURLY IMPERTINENT | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...further experiment proposing to increase the intellectual freedom of college students is announced in the new Senior Fellowships of Dartmouth College. Under the Fellowship plan a group of five carefully selected Juniors will be given an absolute academic free hand during their last year in residence. Collecting no tuition, the college will make no additional requirement for degree beyond the work completed before the Senior year. It is hoped that the personal freedom thus given will act as an intellectual stimulus to men whose undergraduate records promise distinguished scholastic leadership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRAGE | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...semi-final tilt with Squadron A. Harvard had the upper hand throughout and practically turned the game into a rout in the final two chukkers. Gerry also led the scoring in this game with eight goals, Which T. B. Glynn ocC scored four. Captain Clark besides counting three times played sensationally on the defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLO TRIO LOSES FINALS OF CLASS A COMPETITION | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...joined heartily in "My countree 'tis off dee" every time a visitor showed up. What a relief it was to go to Baguio with twenty odd other American boys, and be taught by a small group of the finest men and instructors I have ever had-all hand picked by Bishop Brent. The mountain climate, excellent care and discipline, and the best of instruction make me recall my Baguio days as the happiest of my boyhood, and it was all due to Bishop Brent's realizing a crying need of the times and supplying this need with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Bird In Hand. Playwright John Drinkwater heretofore has dealt chiefly with such authentic characters as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart, Oliver Cromwell, Robert E. Lee. It is strange but not unsatisfactory to see him turn now to less historic folk, men and women who are caricatured for the sake of a good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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