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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barrie no longer writes, no one has succeeded like Mr. Milne in giving us the peculiar Barrie quality, the blending of fantasy with life, the humor of taciturnity, the comedy slant on character, the bitter grimace at success so marked in Barrie's later plays. "Success" is "The Twelve Pound Look" plus "Dear Brutus" in theme, scored delicately for a small orchestra. It is not powerful but it has imagination, a wishful beauty, and a kind of hurt sincerity which one remembers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROGERS COMPARES MILNE TO BARRIE IN CRITICISM | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...their college, pretty thoroughly and attain a large measure of success in imparting them to their charges. I should even venture to say that a fourth college crew here fares rather better under the full time guidance of a veteran third year oarsman than a fourth hundred and fifty pound crew does at Harvard under the occasional supervision of a much overburdened professional coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Student Finds System of Amateur Coaching Falls Far Short of Full Perfection | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...fall crew season, which ended two weeks ago with a aeries recited a lack of heavyweight University material, stork oars in particular; excellent 150-pound material; and great potentialities in the Freshman squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Cox Finds Dearth of Heavyweight Material in Review of Fall Crew Season--150-pound and 1933 Prospects Bright | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

Starting with nine crews, Coach F. R. Sullivan '27 reduced his squad to six 150-pound crews, four of which raced in the Basin on November 8, R. R. White '32 of last year's Freshman lightweight crew winning handily. There is plenty of material on this squad, seven of last year's American Henley champions bolstered by the members of the 1932 crew that defeated Yale and Tech with ease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Cox Finds Dearth of Heavyweight Material in Review of Fall Crew Season--150-pound and 1933 Prospects Bright | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

Coach Gallagher comes with rather an impressive athletic record from Kansas State Agricultural College. He has had previous experience as a coach for track, football, and basketball teams, as well as having won the collegiate wrestling championship in the 145-pound class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLING SQUAD TO HOLD MEETING MONDAY | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

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