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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crimson rugby players will embark on April 1 for a week's stay in Bermuda where they will play Yale, Princeton, and Cornell during the annual rugby week held there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Face Yale, Cornell, Princeton In Bermuda Trip | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

...Rugby Club was forced to reject a previous invitation from the San Francisco Golden Gate Exhibition to fly west and play several public matches with California teams at the Fair during Spring Vacation. It was felt that the trip would be too expensive and impractical, Sydney Cabot, unofficial coach of the rugby team explained yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Face Yale, Cornell, Princeton In Bermuda Trip | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

...strong condemnation of professors who constantly "play to the galleries" to achieve popularity, Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of sociology, launched an attack on the "fad" courses which are taught and promoted by spectator-conscious teachers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sociologist Lashes Academic Faddism; Blasts "Personality Plus" Professors | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

Using American universities as an example, Zimmerman stated, "The Universities of this country are now in a critical period. In Europe, to a considerable extent, the professors must play up entirely to popular sentiment. Slowly but surely this dominion of mass psychology, with its foibles and hysteria, is gaining a foothold in American universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sociologist Lashes Academic Faddism; Blasts "Personality Plus" Professors | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

...Mississippi State College for Women lonely Freshmen these days are forced by upperclassmen to play a game combining the salient characteristics of "post office" and "dear lonely heart" which has resulted in a flood of fan mail addressed Harvard men, sight unseen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gals From South Bombard Harvard With Fan Letters | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

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