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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shells, the largest number of boats Tom Bolles has ever seen racing together, swept down the Charles under clear skies yesterday in a gala crew regatta, the last event in this fall's formal outdoor rowing season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comstock Crew Wins Regatta; Bellboys Victors in Track Meet | 11/2/1939 | See Source »

...Harvard education stands or falls by the quality of the service it renders our undergraduates," according to Professor Cross, who adds, "the largest share of the university's social function is concentrated in the performance of its undergraduate departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS RAPS TENURE POLICY IN PROGRESSIVE ARTICLE | 11/2/1939 | See Source »

Justin Winsor, College Librarian in the last century, thought that "books should be used to the largest extent possible and with the least trouble." But today Widener's monumental size threatens to defeat this principle. Consequently the library fails to play its part in undergraduate education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: PRIMARILY FOR UNDERGRADUATES | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...Instead, taking its famed Middle Way, Swedish consumers banded together in the Kingdom's now widely known cooperatives. These in effect yardstick the food prices that can be charged in Sweden, for their members number about one-third of the population, and the Swedish cooperatives now operate the largest bakeries, canning plants and many other agencies for producing consumer goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORDIC STATES: Mighty Fortress | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Major Bob's boys stacked up against Alabama last week, the largest sport crowd (40,000) in the history of Tennessee crammed into Knoxville's Shields-Watkins Stadium. In the Army, Major Neyland learned that it is wise to keep the enemy guessing as long as possible. Last week he showed that it works as well on a football field. Most scouted player on his team is George ("Bad News") Cafego, son of a Hungarian coal miner-a rugged, jimber-jawed quarterback who has the reputation of being able to do everything but blow the referee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Southern Accent | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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