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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago when an instructor named Mr. Coolidge took his place in the Harvard mathematics department. 'Gradually the influence of his personality has spread. His imposing marches through the Yard, his witty mathematics classes, his total abstinence from the letter "r" along with his notable hospitality, have become as much a part of life here as John Harvard's statue or the elms in the Yard. We hope that Professor Coolidge, even after his retirement, will not make his absence too sharply felt by withdrawing completely from the scenes in which he has taken so great a part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LIVING LEGEND | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

Drinking from one to ten cokes a day is as much a part of college life as saddle shoes and finals. The coke custom is the American collegiate substitute for afternoon tea, it is the excuse for relaxation and conversation. Everyone orders a coke, plain or flavored, usually from lack of originality, force of habit, or because it's his favorite drink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

...remainder of the Big Green backfield is subject to change. Don Norton and Sandy Courter are still battling for varsity quarterback. Both are really too light for college football and neither has had much experience...

Author: By The Dartmouth, Sports Editor, and Mel Wax, S | Title: Indians to Change Offensive Gridiron Tactics This Fall | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

Describing his role of Sheridan White-side as "an actor's dream," Woolley said however that the part "may resemble Alexander Woolcott, but is certainly not a portrait of him." He considers that the play has been much improved since Kaufman and Hart did the third act over: "The audience expects laughs all the way through, and now they get them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monty Woolley, Star of Kaufman and Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner", Praises Kittredge Highly | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...going to work only a few nights a week, make records, and that he was going to take postgraduate work at Juillard Institute in New York just for the fun of it! There are too few guys like this who want to play good, relaxed music so much that they will give up a prosperous livelihood, and too many like Tommy Dorsey and Artic Shaw who are so busy looking for the big money they don't have time to relax in their music or their personal manner...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

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