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News has come up from New Haven that some of Yale's prettiest dreams about her sister university, Harvard, have been rudely shattered. The Yale Daily News bewails the passage of our laissez-faire educational tradition with the coming of faculty scrutiny of History 1 notes. To our emancipated brethren of Yale, this seems a cross between the Inquisition and academic hand-holding. In view of the facts of the case, this comment is hardly just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLASS HOUSES | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

Winifred lost her campaign by seven votes, but last week she was rewarded. Samuel Fassler, leader of the Sixth Assembly District, surprised her by planting on her curly dark hair the crown of co-leader, making her the youngest (age 26) and prettiest of Tammany bosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lady and Tiger | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...beauty of these maps, painted in fresco-like colors with a new acetate binder, was equalled by their value as visual educators. Researchers at Coast universities helped dig up the material which Artist Covarrubias translated into symbolic figures illustrating the Pacific's peoples, economy, art forms, flora & fauna. Prettiest map: Flora & Fauna, in which gay Artist Covarrubias hung his Brazilian sloth from the bar of the Equator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nuggets | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Austie Harding put the Hoddermen back in the lead in 4.50 of the second period on one of the prettiest goals that the Varsity has registered this year. Joe Patrick, who had been banished two minutes earlier for a leg check, came out of the penalty box to take a pass from Eaton, bring it down the right boards and pass across to Austic, who blasted a corner shot through the Queens goalie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greatly Improved Varsity Sextet Upsets Queens in Garden Clash | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

...Prettiest run of the afternoon was executed by a Crimson waterboy who, while sprinting toward the sidelines after a time-out, crossed the last wide stripe on his managerial afterdeck, on a brilliant five-yard squish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cloudy With Showers | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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