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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past three indoor and outdoor track seasons, a Harvard track team has not been humbled at the hands of a Dartmouth contingent. The University took the Hanoverians into camp in 1925 by a margin of 75 to 60, in 1926 83 1-4 to 51 3-4, and last year the Big Green emerged on the short end of a 72 1-3 to 62 1-3 count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IS FAVORED IN DARTMOUTH GAMES | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

...past, is vindicated anew in the attainment of the fiftieth year of the Exonian, the newspaper of Phillips Exeter Academy. Although it has not fallen to the lot of the Exonian to win the CRIMSON award during the two years of the newspaper competition for preparatory schools, the separating margin between the Exonian and the winners has in each year been slight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EXONIAN'S ANNIVERSARY | 5/1/1928 | See Source »

...candidates, is of great importance psychologically as well as numerically. California is farthest from New York. California contains a curious mixture of wet Protestants, dry Catholics and vice versas. Thousands of Republicans were registered to vote in the Democratic primary. To predict a decisive Smith victory in California the margin of 10,000 votes quoted last week by Smith men seemed inadequate, senseless. Behind Candidate Walsh is William Gibbs McAdoo. Behind Candidate Reed is William Randolph Hearst. Behind Candidate Smith is onetime (1915-21) Senator James Duval Phelan, locally no less potent than McAdoo or Hearst but not clearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Brown Derby | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...Freshman lacrosse team won its first game of the season with the Springfield College Seconds on Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field by the narrow margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRINGFIELD SECONDS BOW TO 1931 LACROSSE ATTACK | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...route to warrant optimistic anticipation of the several seasons about to get under way on Soldiers Field and its environs. Out of four games played the veteran Harvard nine went down to defeat only once, and that at the hands of the undefeated Quantico marines by a one run margin. The track team had a field day at the expense of two Virginia rivals, the tennis squad stood up creditably against high calibre opposition; and the lacrosse team, though losing all of its four games, disposed of the hardest part of its schedule and gained much valuable experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STARTER'S GUN | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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