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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Often it is possible to have too much of a good thing, and this point might well be applied to the number of essays that should be assigned in those courses frequently taken by the senior class. Each year, members of that learned group find themselves caught with an honors thesis and a great many course papers outside their field from which they can not be excused. Most deeply submerged are concentrators in History-Literature and Bio-Chemistry, for, belonging to no formal department, they find it very difficult to get excused from an overdoes of essays seven inside their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIND OVER MEMORY | 11/10/1938 | See Source »

Anyhow, long, long ago, in the sleepy hamlet where he was born, Vag learned to love trains. The whole atmosphere of the town was railroadish. It was a division point on a large system, and the train-smell and train-noise filled the air constantly. Petit Vag used to watch the heavy freights groan out of the yards, shout defiance to nature and the elements, and attack the mountain grades--and many times his heart rode the cowcatcher of a mighty 16-driver Mallet engine, or nestled in the cupola of a caboose. Every night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/10/1938 | See Source »

...From a strictly Lehman's point of view, it Lucas to me as it neither side will Dewey as well as it hopes. The time not being Langer, they didn't seem to Vanderbilt a Nice machine. Pause a Wiley. Did E Plan to Cross Overton the other party? The result is that the Democrats will be Luckey to Caraway the state, and they may get Nye votes...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: Huey Sees Saltonstall, Quinn, Lehman Breaking Tape Today | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

Mention must be made of the superb line-backing of Winthrop's Joe Peden, whose jarring knee-high tackles were a strong point in the Puritan defense throughout the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Tie Deacons O-O in House Playofr | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

...Balanchine has again shown a nice discretion in his adaptation of the ballet to musical comedy; at one point he combines a tap and a ballet to create an extremely pleasing and original number. His "tape-worm" finale to the first act was something of a disappointment, but it looked as if the ensemble and started on the wrong beat; another number entitled "Big Brother" just plan dies--the full chorus is on stage, but nothing happens, and a little boy is expected to carry the pens, and a little boy is expected to carry the number on adolescent cuteness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

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