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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total amount given to the Harvard Fund since its organization in 1925 is $1,713,023. A total of 20,349 individual alumni have contributed to the fund in this period, approximately two-thirds the living number of alumni in the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORD NUMBER OF ALUMNI BOOST FUND | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

Last night's action by the Student Council in doing away with the Freshman election and transferring the functions formerly performed by the class officers to the Union Committee is the culmination of three years of agitation, during which period the CRIMSON has favored the abolition of elections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN VOTE DOWN CLASS ELECTIONS IN REFERENDUM | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

Melville in the South Seas, the result of six years' sleuthing by a Duke University professor, is a 522-page argument that Melville's books are far from autobiographical, that Melville's South Seas period (1841-1845)-source of his most lasting books-was far more joyous than he later made out. Melville's turn to allegory, he says, was a literary mistake, aided and abetted by Boston and Manhattan intellectuals. Hawthorne, who used to lie in the hay talking with Melville about time and destiny, characterized Melville's metaphysics as enough to "compel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lies-cu/n-Art | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Taking the lead in the first period, the Varsity polo team triumphed, 16-14 over a strong Princeton trio in a hard-fought match at the Tigers' Riding Hall Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Malletmen and Fencers Win Matches | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Sure, vacation is near, but not yet excitingly near. Welles has gone; Hepburn has come; the opera sells itself out. The first paragraph of a news story reads: "Czechoslovakia was." Just Czechoslovakia was, period. A character in Shaw's "Pygmalion" snaps: "Yes, I said 'God' and I meant every word of it!" Daylight lengthens, but supper is still its deadline. Students eat goldfish, and dog food, and the ice cream record falls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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