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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dartmouth's Big Green cagers, who dominated the play in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League during the season just ended and who won the championship for the second year in a row, are much in evidence on the all-league team chosen by the seven coaches as they walked away with three first team berths and placed one man on the second quintet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E.I.L. COACHES PICK ALL-STAR QUINTETS | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...rarely are the crystal springs of Henry Purcell's music tapped. There is a great feast of choral, instrumental, and harpsichord music which is never served to moderns except in isolated events such as the Lowell House production of the opera-play, "King Arthur." And this is in spite of his unquestioned genius: of the simple and dignified charm of all his works, of the amazingly conceived and thrillingly beautiful harmonic progressions which could be surpassed only by those of J. S. Bach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...freshness and vitality of her performance are qualified only by the occasional drawbacks of the play itself. Certain lines--especially in the first act--come too fast for even the most hardened crack cracker; the story, containing one case of mixed identity, virulent satirizing of Henry Luce and the "Fortune" outfit, and a complex love relation, verges on the obscure. But individual scenes, such as Miss Hepburn's "interview" of "Destiny's" reporters in the first act and the love scene between Van Heflen and Miss Hepburn in the second, show real brilliance, and give to the play an underlying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...McSweeney with 12 points and Fran Simpson with nine were the big guns in the Crimson attack, and the play of Bill Smith at guard was another feature of the game. Captain Jack Stewart at center and Vic Marans were the other two Harvard starters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee Hoopsters Eke Out 43 to 41 Victory Over Yale | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Mike Rice and Ed Buckley paced the scoring efforts of the Crimson Freshmen. Buckley, who had been elected captain shortly before the game, filled the air with his long shots from all over the floor. Rice, high Crimson scorer, kept the Yardlings in the lead with his aggressive play and his many fast breaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Five Takes Close Contest Against Eli Hoopsters by 51-41 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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