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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether or not it will support these athletics in the future. The original statement from the H.A.A. proposed the abolition of most of the minor sports including soccer, or, as an alternative, the sport levy of $10 on every undergraduate. A further development of the solution to this problem was suggested by an undergraduate who proposed the seven-point program which favored not only the $10 levy but also "the abolition of H.A.A. support for all Jayvee teams and for polo, fencing, lacrosse, and possibly soccer." This undergraduate is further quoted as saying that "he feels that these sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "In Defense of Soccer" | 3/27/1935 | See Source »

...blend of Hans Christian Andersen and Broadway which is a Damon Runyon story. Leon Errol and Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem of getting her a new hack horse, they hire a professional horse thief from a Madison Square Garden rodeo. He is a desk cowboy with wild eyeballs who in the picture's most hilarious sequence steals the year's outstanding race horse, Gallant Godfrey. Things go on like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...scrubbed floors to work her way through the University of California. When she decided to be a conductor she went straight to Karl Muck in Bayreuth, persuaded him to take her for a pupil. When she assembled her woman's orchestra she knew very well that her problem would be to find players for the winds. Finally 25 were recruited, all so earnest that they were oblivious to the fact that women look even funnier than men when blowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ambitious Backs | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...refer here to the unfortunate hesitancy and suspicion with which student organizations at Harvard have reacted to the invitation of the Continuations Committee of the Armistice Day Anti-War Conference requesting participation in a sane review of the peace problem. But the CRIMSON's success in creating the erroneous impression that Anti-War Strike, N.S.L. and Communism are synonymous terms has prevented wide and whole-hearted support of a move which it has itself editorially supported namely, the promotion of peace. Until last year's affair can be forgotten, or unless the CRIMSON takes steps to rectify its inadvertancy, only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

Throughout, Mr. Sheean is in search of some means of solving the ago-old problem of the relation of the one to the many, of the individual to society. He tries in vain to find a hitching post to which he can hook his personality beyond all danger of becoming loosened. The reader, reflecting on the author's self-contempt at being unable to espouse and realizes what Mr. Sheean could not that, as shown in "Personal History." Communism is in the last analysis but another extreme, another Utopia. One leaves Mr. Sheean convinced of the significance in the fact...

Author: By H. V. P., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/23/1935 | See Source »

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