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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dartmouth Freshmen pay just a shade more for their 21 meals than Harvard Housters do for 10, $7.56 is what the weekly tax totals in the Hanover Commons. The traditional claim of the Papooses is that the college makes a profit on that figure and uses it to makeup its deficit on the ailing Hanover Inn. "Second semester usually sees several riots precipitated by an unusually poor meal," the editor of "The Dartmouth" admits or boasts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food-- | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...eight men who will pull his shell through the water fastest, and even that is no easy job. The eight oarsmen in the lightweight shell must total not more than 1,200 pounds so that weight as well as rowing ability is a very integral part of the makeup of the fifties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALES' ONE-FIFTY BOAT WINS RIGHT TO OPPOSE ENGINEERS | 4/25/1941 | See Source »

Before vacation, race equality on Harvard athletic teams appeared to be a settled issue. The unobtrusive decision of the H. A. A. to let no racial prejudice affect the makeup of any Harvard team seemed to be the only fair and liberal solution to the problem, and for this decision the H. A. A. was to be congratulated. Now, however, the vacation is over, the decision has been reversed, and the H. A. A. should be severely criticized for its stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Color Lineup--Chapter Two | 4/8/1941 | See Source »

...southern schools wish to meet the northern universities in athletics they should accept the standards of the north. It is not for us to accept their racial discrimination. The quiet decision of the H.A.A. to let no questions of race prejudice affect the makeup of a Harvard team is a fair and liberal stand on the problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Color Line-Up | 3/27/1941 | See Source »

Since I had the supervision of several hundred laborers on Island Public Works, I am convinced that the Chamorro is a first-class laborer. He is loyal to America. He has considerable European blood in his makeup. It may be true that he does not produce large amounts of food. This is due to one reason only, a lack of a market in which to dispose of his produce at a profit. In Guam the average temperature is about 81° F. and the humidity is up in the 80s. This causes rapid decomposition. The natives are extremely poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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