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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Harvard-Yale track squad did not perform quite up to expectations in their invasion across the seas, and the result was a decisive 9 to 3 victory for their British consins from Oxford and Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew's Henley Regatta Victory Stands Out Among Summer's Events; Crimson-Blue Track Squad Loses | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

Even under the American system of scoring points by counting seconds and thirds, the Oxford-Cambridge combination would have won handily. The British had a 7 to 5 edge in seconds over the Harvard-Yale track forces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew's Henley Regatta Victory Stands Out Among Summer's Events; Crimson-Blue Track Squad Loses | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

While all Rhodes scholarships for this year have been cancelled, and while Cambridge will take no American Fellows, it is believed that Oxford will take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Scholars Kept Here by War | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

Behind the new Littauer School of Public Administration are the Law School buildings, and the new Hemenway Gymnasium. On Oxford Street, beyond the New Lecture Hall, are the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEOGRAPHY OF HARVARD PUZZLES TYROS | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...Comet was conceived seven years ago, at lazy, old-world Oxford (port of entry for Maryland before Baltimore was even a village). Well-pedigreed Mrs. Elliott Wheeler, daughter of one of the founders of the exclusive Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club, asked seafaring Lowndes Johnson, another native blue blood, to design a small boat in which her young sons could learn the ABCs of sailing. A one-design boat, 16-ft. long and patterned somewhat after the bigger Stars (22 ft.) in which Designer Johnson had become famed as a skipper (1929 world's champion), the Comet was adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comets | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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