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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News that the big bass drum of Purdue will not boom in the Stadium this afternoon brings disappointment to the potential spectators, but relief to the Harvard Band. For according to rumor, the musicians who so unfortunately stayed at home not only possess the most gigantic drum in the history of Lafayette, Indiana, but are a group of men whose manoeuvres on the gridiron are equalled only by the warriors once in moleskin and silk. There was a time, just after the war, when the Harvard Band had a monopoly on football music, or at least on intermission parades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARTIAL MUSIC | 10/8/1927 | See Source »

...Radcliffe girl may not go to a concert unattended, and not more than five may attend a concert in a group. This group must possess the influence of one Senior. Chaperons to all affairs must be approved by the authorities, and shall in no case include the brother of a member of the party. Underclass-women must be chaperoned at any dance after 8 o'clock but their elder sisters may dance at a few specified places, provided they make the 12 o'clock deadline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food, Feeding, Dancing, Dress, Goings Out and Comings-In of Radcliffe Regulated by Rule--Full Moon Not Restricted | 10/5/1927 | See Source »

Crosby, Guarnaccia, and Burns comprise the team A backfield which Coach Horween has announced as his starting choice for this afternoon's encounter with Vermont. A second combination composed of Moore, fullback, and French, Donaghy and Hitch alternating at the halfback positions possess almost all the qualities of the first and look capable of rivalling it in action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...this region the two are believed to have clashed and finally mingled forming a new type of man known as the fulahs. These people will be the object of special research as they possess features of each of the races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESEARCH EXPEDITION GOES TO FRENCH SUDAN | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

...fashion. The annual battle of the century may have been all of those things and many more, but since its power was so tremendous it can scarcely be passed off as just one of those things. The columns devoted to the private life, if they may be said to possess any, of Joseph Eugene and William Harrison might, it is true, prove any number of nasty things about modern journalism but any murder trial, or sashweight session would do and has done the same only moreso. One must go deeper; one must even go, as the criminal lawyers have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANASSA MELODY | 9/23/1927 | See Source »

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