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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prospects for a decent season look relatively bright at this point; but what will happen when an ivy league opponent reaches the local bowling greens is a meet point. Last year's team, while unimpressive in overall performance, managed to finish second in League play. Yale's Frank Quinn was the stopper last year; if the Varsity gets to him in June with the rest of the league safely under its thumb, all may be well...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Crosby's Bat Clinches Varsity Catching Job | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

Action on the 'Cliffe AYD chapter in currently at a standstill while college authorities await a letter from intercollegiate AYD headquarters guaranteeing the local group autonomous affiliation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Sets New Chartering Policy | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

With the Veritas emphasis on fantasy, Alden said that the hilly Charles slum area was perfect. It's really rather quaint, with its cobblestone streets and local characters supplying more than enough of the proper atmosphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Veritas' Film Nears Completion | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

...hostile committees. On the outside, opposition to MVA was sparked by private power companies, the coal industry, and conservative Mid Westerners fearful of what was termed "New Deal socialism," or, as the Midwest Manufacturers Associations Inc. put it, "intrusion by the Federal Government into the affairs of State and local governments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/22/1948 | See Source »

...States Army engineers to the job of controlling floods . . . is precisely like sending Typhoid Mary to stop a typhoid epidemic." Now, with a stingy Congress and international distractions, Pick's 10-year estimate on Missouri River control should probably be changed to 100 years. And MVA, for all its local support, is apparently on the shelf for a long time to come. the only thing that keeps rolling right along is the Missouri River, with excellent prospects for bigger, better, and more destructive floods in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/22/1948 | See Source »

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