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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maine aggregation is for the most part a veteran nine, and Coach Brice expects his charges to make a good showing against the Crimson despite their comparative lack of practice. At least six of the visiting starting team have had intercollegiate experience in the past, and it will require excellent pitching to keep these sluggers in doubt is the hurling assignment and check...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NINE TO MEET MAINE TODAY | 4/17/1929 | See Source »

...exaggerate the importance of the former. To add that "Mr. Lowell cannot hope to keep Harvard out of the papers any more than the assistant football manager can hope to suppress the Harvard football news", appears the Harvard football news", appears to be, to say the least, a lack of taste. And to define good will "literally" in terms of cash is more than a slight confusion of values...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vox Popull | 4/16/1929 | See Source »

...lack of an established program for the chosen few proves the pit-fall it threatens to be, the Fellowships may develop into a state of affairs similar to that reached by the Dean's List. It is this happy medium which insures a freedom for individual study and at the same time provides a less ephemeral form of attack than that afforded by a complete lack of organized study...

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

Paolo and Francesca. As a picture, perhaps, with its conventional figures appearing in stained glass colors, this 32-year-old idyll by Stephen Phillips may have a place in dramatic history. However, its lack of semblance to life makes its revival now by so fine an actress as Jane Cowl a little difficult to understand. To interest the modern playgoer in the doom of these two familiar poetic figures, a little more of Dante's fire is needed...

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

City Manager Sherrill warned them against entering homes as firemen on inspections and then suddenly transforming themselves into policemen to arrest Cincinnati's evildoers thus detected. Oldtime politicians who deplore the lack of politics in Cincinnati's form of government charged that the new system would reduce the efficiency of the fire department, predicted that Cincinnati might be swept away in an avenging holocaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Firemen Into Police | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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