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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...veterans, the former a letterman and a senior while the latter, a junior, was a regniar at times during last season but failed to hold the position. Coach E.A. Wachter was expected to choose M.E. Pierce '31 for center but has selected Upton, a second squad football player this past fall and a player who did not make the freshman quintet last year because of his height...
...other reason than sheer physical limitations, the rush of American youth to the colleges that has been going on since the war could not keep up indefinitely. Reports of the numbers of new students entering universities for the past year reveal the fact that the tide has finally been checked. For the first time since the movement began, the rate of increase in enrollments is less than for the preceding year...
Another possibility is that the strenuous efforts made during the last few years to divert some of the flood at its source have had a tangible result. In contrast to the lean days of the past century when needy universities beat the publicity drums far and wide to attract customers to their displays of educational wares, the present attitude is distinctly diminuendo. College is a waste of time for many students; for a purely business career it has few practical uses; those who come for social reasons are an unmitigated evil. Such statements have become familiar to the reading public...
...office of secretary-treasurer of the Class of 1930 was won by Josiah Warren Potter '30, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who prepared at Riverside High School before coming to Harvard. Potter has been a member of the University football squad for the past two years and also participated in the University track meets as a shot putter...
...Fiesta", but there will be no sale of tickets to the public. Contrary to current rumors the management of the play states that it is not a substitute play for "Fiesta", but that it was planned earlier in the year following the custom of the Dramatic Club in past years...