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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power of the judge to sentence to death has done more than anything else to prevent convictions for murder in the first degree," Governor Smith pointed out. If properly constituted, a sentencing board could attach rehabilitation measures to the penalties it assigned. Its edicts would range from ordering minor surgical operations, and rest cures, to the insane asylum and the electric chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Board of Sentences? | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...plan," he went on to say, "is to have the students who are interested in acting, begin as all of the most famous actors have, by playing in minor parts, until they are experienced enough to assume more difficult roles, then if they show that they have talent enough, the Repertory Theatre is willing to lend them assistance in leading on to a stage success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFFERS STUDENTS THESPIAN CAREER | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

...effected by the Collwyn organization, enhances its drama with a slow and deliberate tempo, unfolds its story with a sombre and decisive insistence. In the remote and improbable province of Rupolosia among the barbaric villainies of a military governor, the ravages of his soldiery, and assorted chicaneries of minor characters, the widow Nadja struggles bravely to retain possession of her manor house- an edifice which, as depicted, does not justify her heroisms. In the part of this lady a new, highly able and presumably Russian actress is discovered to the U. S. screen, one Olga Tschechowa. Despite effective rascality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...this fall who will be lost by graduation. The remaining members of the team who will report for the picture include Captain J. L. Reid '29, Leslie Flaksmann '29, and J. O. Wildes '29, winners of major sports letters this year; and R. G. Luttman '29, winner of a minor "H" this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS WILL ELECT LEADER FOR 1928 RUNNERS TOMORROW | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

Although the track "H" is awarded to point-winners in the Harvard-Yale cross country meet and to relay race winners, these two sports have been included with the minor sports in summarizing the results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 20 YEAR SURVEY SHOWS CRIMSON ABOVE BLUE | 12/16/1927 | See Source »

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