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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tickets for about 300 couples have been sold while the stag line is long, as usual, for which about 150 tickets have been sold. Both these numbers are lower than those for last year...
...Juniors and three Sophomores to the Student Council for next year was announced last night by James De Normandie '29 who is in charge of the elections. In this year's elections only 644 ballots were cast by the members of the Sophomore and Junior Classes. This is considerably lower than the figures of last spring when 686 votes were received...
...down towards the northeast corner of the Basin. With the winner out ahead, Harvard and Tech were left to fight it out for second place. Here the latter's lighter weight which allowed them to ride clear of the waves and their ability to stick to Harvard with a lower pace then S. W. Swaim '31 had been setting for his crew, proved the decisive factors. As the Engineers raised the beat in the final quarter mile they passed the Crimson oarsmen who did not have the reserve energy to increase their speed materially...
...brought the only Harvard victory, and proved small consolation at that, for Cornell's No. 6 oar snapped at the button over half a mile from the finish. The Ithacans continued pounding away with an heroic beat and clung closely tot he heavy Harvard crew whose shell was noticeably lower in the waves than either, Tech or Cornell. In the final sprint Cornell could not keep up but the prow of the Tech boat riding high and clear, shot forward past amidships of the sinking Crimson shell and nearly snatched the victory from the Harvard eight...
...legitimate theatres will not disappear, but they will become very sparse. With the best authors and actors being drawn into the moving picture field by the compensation available, and with the 'Listerine' advertising propaganda and lower admission prices that the sound pictures offer, the stage is put in a difficult position. But this will achieve one thing: it will create such competition among the legitimate plays, that a natural weeding out process will take place...