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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the best known of the local ski rendevous is the Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton. This is but a fifteen or twenty minute drive from Harvard Square and offers two large open slopes, one with a fairly steep descent. There is a jump which gives leaps of sixty and seventy feet under normal conditions for those who prefer this type of skiing. There is also a toboggan chute...
Entertainment for the affair which will come under the auspices of the Union Committee, has not yet been definitely arranged, but it is known that the dining hall will be specially decorated, and the Committee is negotiating for a local orchestra to furnish music between 6 and 7 o'clock. They are also trying to procure several Freshman members of the Glee Club to sing Christmas songs...
Because Hell Week seems a better idea to youngsters than to oldsters, the doings of zealous local chapters never escape tut-tutting at sessions of the National Interfraternity Conference, which represents the elders of 62 U. S. Greek Letter societies. Meeting last week in Manhattan, the Conference administered to Hell Week its severest slap to date by resolving "to give cordial support to measures to abolish Hell Week taken by any college or university...
...where he heard Hertz lead the Symphony Orchestra, fanned his interest. At 15 he rounded up 60 professional, amateur and retired musicians, hired 30 more from Los Angeles, to make the San Bernardino Community Orchestra. Two years later he began to lead it. Meantime he was in demand for local theatre orchestras, went on tour playing and conducting for Actress Olga Baclanova. In 1931 he entered Southern California's tiny Redlands University to study English and music theory...
...Broadcast of 1937" begins at the University its third local run, there-by missing its last chance of being correctly dated, and bearing testimony to the speed which in the field of entertainment it describes. The picture is an abundant offering to those who spend their time and enthusiasm oscillating between the moviehouse and the radio. For besides the many personages dragged more or less directly into the plot, there are such purely gratuitous features as Benny Goodman and his orchestra, and Stokowski, the frenzied genius who seems to tell his musicians exactly what he wants with his violently contorted...