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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But if the Corporation is at the same time the executive and legislature of a miniature state inhabited by 8000 students and 2000 Faculty members, the Board of Overseers is in theory the Supreme Court. This body of thirty alumni, chosen for five years in an election open to all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's $200,000,000 Fate Guided By 7 - Man Corporation | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

Primaries of both Democratic "ins" and Republican "outs" will be over before another sheet is torn from the calendar, and the election follows in the first week of November.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Hot Campaign For Mayor Likely | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

Perhaps a fight over this sore point may not develop this year since the University has just offered to give the Cambridge City Hospital a complete X-ray plant and guarantee its upkeep.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Hot Campaign For Mayor Likely | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

Ex-Mayor John Lynch, victorious over the incumbent in a libel suit but loser in the 1937 election, has also thrown down the glove. Another important candidate may be ex-Mayor Richard M. Russell '14, who could probably repeat his previous reform and economy victory

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Hot Campaign For Mayor Likely | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

The parade of triumphs over the Elis started on a rainy afternoon in the grim, gray Yale bowl, when a favored Crimson eleven finally struck down a particularly tenacious bulldog. Torby Macdonald, captain of the current eleven, snatched a pass over the goal line in the gloaming and "Chie," Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teams Won Five Yale Contests Last Year | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

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