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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poetic license. Snowdrifts are blue-grey at dawn, do not look white until after sunrise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The President-Elect | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Navy admits, nay protests, that it is not the world's greatest. In point, that is, of size, though never of spirit. Last week, on the heels of President Coolidge's unminced reiteration of his country's intention to look out from now on for its own interests, naval and financial, the Navy Department proclaimed its intention: "To create, maintain and operate a navy second to none, and in conformity with the ratios established by the Washington conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Second to None | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...resignation to the decree of the Faculty but in defiance of the enemies of Harvard's institutions the Sophomores appropriately garbed, held an imposing funeral procession and services. A coffin was provided, a foot-fall placed within it, and a grave was dug, while all had an opportunity to look for the last time on the face of their "dear departed friend" and hero of many battle. Then "Football Fight, um," symbolizing the game, was buried in the Delta amid the wails and lamentation of the mourners. When the grave was filled gravestones of black board were placed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Football Series a History of Two Waves of Victory | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...believe that these figures may be distorted by the influence which the Yale game must have had on the correspondence of the past week, and they suggest that very likely the competition offered by Yale undergraduates proved too much for the Crimson literatures, when it came to making invitations look attractive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Girls Outclass Smith and Vassar in Number of Harvard Letters They Attract--Bryn Mawr Fourth | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

...shudder this time was, however, very slight and conducted away by the excellent acting of Victor McLaglen; not to mention the presence in the picture of Lois Moran. Mr. McLaglen is usually a sympathetic actor, and Miss Moran is always very nice to look at--which may seem like a too categorical statement but is meant merely as an expression of personal preference...

Author: By H. F. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/20/1928 | See Source »

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