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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...severe blow to Harvard's chances of downing the Dartmouth sextet tomorrow night came with the announcement that John Tudor '29, captain and crack left wing of the University hockey team, will be hors de combat for at least two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INJURY FORCES TUDOR OUT OF GREEN CONTEST | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

Iselin, who is Canadian squash champion, is entering the singles tournament to conform with a rule passed last year by the National Squash Racquets Association providing that at least one member of each team must enter in the singles competition and that this man may not represent his team in the team matches. In the tournament he will be faced by the leading players of the country including H. N. Rawlins '27, present national champion, and J. L. Pool '28, both of whom captained the University team while Seniors at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACQUETMEN ENTER NATIONAL TOURNEY | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

Thus the Union is trying to keep non genuine sallors off the high seas but it is doubtful if they will succeed. It is not only the least organized labor group, but its members are all too ready to sell their Able Seaman's ticket to any person who desires a touch of nautical life. And the summer sailor may still satisfy his yearning for a vacation position on shipboard by the use of a little ingenuity and nerve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER SAILORS | 2/13/1929 | See Source »

...latest of his pot-boiling series of-so-called investigations of representative American college existence, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts '07, burlesque artist extraordinary, has succeeded in arousing Harvard--or at least the editors of the Harvard Crimson--to hot indignation and to a vigorous, if not too clever, denial of his interpretation of student life at Cambridge. This, we imagine, is just what Mr. Roberts wanted. It would even seem to strengthen a few of the points at which he has been at such pains to whale away with his heavy bludgeon of journalistic humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/13/1929 | See Source »

...There were 24,700,000 pupils in U. S. public schools, 767,000 in U. S. colleges. More than $320,000,000,000 was deposited in U. S. banks. Since 1880 U. S. population has doubled. U. S. wage earners have trebled, U. S. wealth has increased sevenfold. At least one-third of the present output of U. S. factories consists of products that were unknown 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Figures | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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