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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate committee which has been appointed to investigate the question of a possible revision of minor sports awards, and which is incidentally made up of four seniors connected with major sports, may turn to the outcome of these contests as one of the few concrete indications of whether the present conditions merit change...
Scarcely have the powers that be obtained an armistice in the battle of the Ganns before another and even more momentous controversy comes to shake the tents of the mighty. Such issues as reparations, disarmament, and the World Court pall before the present earthquake in America's diplomatic center. Even the most weighty questions of social precedence must give way before the spectral hint of prohibition in the British embassy...
Custom house officials are not the only men faced with difficult problems. The authorities of Somerville are at present considering a petition of Tufts College asking for the use of its tennis courts and golf links on Sunday afternoons between two and six o'clock. For in spite of last fall's referendum permitting professional sports on the Sabbath there still exists a relic of the Blue laws which forbids any athletics within 1000 feet of a church building...
...least disheartened by the gloomy forecasts of the papers, Coach Farrell's men have every expectation of surprising the dopesters by a win over the favored Elis. The present excellent condition of the squad augurs well for an upset, and the clear weather of the past few days has aided in bringing the team up to top form. The group that journeys to New Haven will be in fighting trim, ready to seize every opportunity of toppling the Bulldog track...
...even for the honors man there are bound to be a sufficient number of truly stimulating lectures in any department to make an entire abolition of course attendance undesirable. Whether or not the course reductions at present allowed Seniors who are candidates for honors has struck the proper balance between course and tutorial work in perhaps open to question. But there is certainly little reason to suppose that a general reduction in course requirements at Harvard would be a widespread blessing...