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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's crew quarters on the Thames have long been condemned. Without adequate heating equipment and lacking in such necessities as sufficient showers and drying rooms, the buildings used present a sorry contrast to those of Yale. The importance of such a matter as a large enough float for the freshman crew is comprehensible even to those unfamiliar with rowing conditions. To replace the old buildings with modern, sanitary structures will obviously improve the general training conditions. In their excellent position on a bluff overlooking the river, the new buildings will put Harvard's athletes in quarters suitable...
...tonight at 8.15 o'clock, when Brown is faced in Holden Chapel. The University debaters, upholding the affirmative of the same question as at Wesleyan, will consist of J. F. Harding '30, G. W. Harrington '30, and P. J. W. Bove '29. The speeches will be 15 minutes long, with the first affirmative man devoting five minutes of his time to a final rebuttal. The audience will render the decision...
...University's latest admirer is none other than Miss Olivia "Skeeter" Mathews, of Dedham. Formerly prominent in society, she began to be bored with its "petty functions," and turned to aviation as a diversion. Before long she had become so absorbed in it that even dances lost their pristine appeal...
...open game, which requires speed and skill in handling the ball. To perfect players in these requirements Coach Hawley, and now Can hell after him, employed exercises of all kinds, as remote is could be imagined from the old hard-driving, hauling football which was popular for so long. Tumbling and skipping rope would have seemed dainty to sportsmen a score of years ago, but for the Dartmouth football game they have their uses...
...pound class Crispin Cooke '32 upset predictions by conquering C. G. Chase '30 of the University team after a long gruelling struggle which went into two overtime periods. A. W. Kelsey 3G, and W. A. Robinson '31 put up an exciting match, and the latter's fine defense amounted to more than Kelsey's victory would indicate. The best bout of the evening was between P. N. Vonckx '31 and Nathaniel Warner '30 Vonckx, with a bad wrist, was forced to default after about six minutes, after a splendid exhibition of game wrestling, Coach Lewis refereed...