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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's tennis team will be built around two Juniors, Captain Langdon Gilkey '40 and David S. Burt '40, who played number 1 most of last year...
Late registrations are expected to increase this year's enrollment by the end of the week. College officials said that there will be an unusually large number of late registrations this year because of the adverse meteorological conditions...
Acting head coach of the two sports will be Jack Barnaby, Cowles' assistant. Helping Barnaby will be Dick Dorson, intercollegiate squash champion and number one Crimson tennis player two years ago. Dorson is now attending graduate school. Barnaby and Dorson will take charge of the fall University and Freshman tennis tournaments as the first duty of the racquet season...
During the Christmas vacation Harvard workers antagonistic to the invasion of the Yard by a foreign organization formed their own union and openly combated the A. F. of L. By this time the waitresses unit, A. F. of L. number 112 and cooks number 186 feared that workers in their ranks might go over to the other union and hastily concluded a contract with the University, maintaining an open shop and adjusting certain working conditions...
...settling down to four years at Harvard it would be wise if the Freshman included in his academic schedule a certain number of hours which he will waste each day. He may study in those hours, but will learn things he will never use and promptly forget. But this waste has a value; it shows him something dull or worthless or leads to a dead end. As Nock said further in the same article: "Useless knowledge . . . gains value only as it is forgotten. . . . So let no one be fazed by his inability to accomplish a scholastic task quickly. Part...