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...decreased income of the Association this year, permanent improvements have been necessarily curtailed. A hockey rink is among the most important of these. Uprooted from its proper home in Cambridge, and transplanted in Boston, the sport has not enjoyed the normal development it would have had nearer at hand. Despite the fact that it probably draws more interest than any other winter sport, no facilities are offered nearer than the Boston Garden...
...aggressive chapter with a strong, energetic membership. Though for the last two years there has been a movement to make a "professors' union" of the Association, its powers at present consist chiefly in uttering threats at enemies of academic freedom. Last week it moved a step nearer unionization. Delegates voted to keep a "non-recommended list" of unsatisfactory colleges which would "deter" (not prevent) member-professors from teaching in them...
...Contemporary Art was inaugurated in 1929 to fill a definite gap in the cultural education of Harvard, if not for the whole of greater Boston. Its avowed purpose is to show examples of modern art whose merits are still frankly debateable, objects which could not otherwise be seen nearer than New York. In several of its exhibitions, notably the present one, it has offered students a chance for comparison between contemporary works and recognized masterpieces which have characteristics in common. In another exhibition, the development of modern trends of artistic endeavor was shown. These instances show the organization's attempt...
...rapid, so out of keeping with what usually happens in Notre Dame games that 52,000 spectators who saw it found it hard to believe. Shaver threw two passes-one of 50 yd. to Sparling, another 23 yd. to Hall. Two downs later the ball was only 2 yd. nearer the goal. There were 60 seconds of the game left. Notre Dame, expecting another pass, saw Southern California's placekicker, Johnny Baker drop back to the 23-yd. line, saw the ball sail over the line of scrimmage, between the goal posts, win the game for Southern California...
...three courses: They could move loud Crane Anson to a special pen further away from the apartment house; perform tonsilectomy on all the cranes; put all the cranes in the giraffe pen, move the giraffes, which, unable to make any sound with their mouths, sometimes have an unpleasant smell, nearer to Senator Costigan...