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College Coach (Warner). The problems that confront Coach Gore (Pat O'Brien) in this picture-an attempt to buy real estate and sell it to Calvert College for a new stadium; the interest Mrs. Gore (Ann Dvorak) shows in a ringer halfback; the resentment of Calvert's best player (Dick Powell) when he gets passing marks he does not deserve -are far more interesting than the locker-room orations and kindergarten campus antics with which Hollywood usually pays its respects to football every autumn. The picture fits less into the category of a juvenile sporting print than into...
...ambitious and calculating Leverett House squad, probably the smallest of any of the Houses, to piece together a first team which barely won the first half, and which has clinched the second during the last few days. Several times during this period there have been dark rumors about "ringer" teams being formed to put an inglorious stop to the march of the Rabbit aggregation, but evidently the potential tortoises did not persevere as in the fable...
...North Shore scholarship for 1931-32. The following men, who have been awarded the Book Prizes of the club for this year, will also be guests: Robert Aylward, of Beverly; Edward Cody, of Salem; Richard Crosby, of Danvers; T. J. Hartnett, of Peabody; R. A. Morse, of Marblehead; Wilfred Ringer, of Gloucester, and F. C. Tennant, of Manchester...
Enough has probably been said about the Lowell House bells. The delightful inaccuracy of the New Yorker has told the world of the ink-drinking bell ringer from Russia, and how it was finally necessary to send him back to his native land. The present concerts on the carillon are, therefore, the result of the Head Tutor's skill...
...about the dyeing of Aknahton, gave out valuable hints on "ringing'' in general: "It's the softest thing in the world to ring a horse, but it's a racket, like anything else. . . . You must know the markings of the horse so the 'ringer' can be made up accordingly. It costs about $100 to dye a horse. . . . Before you put the dye on it's necessary to sweat the horse and dry him out. . . . "When we rung Aknahton as Shem at Havre de Grace, I shipped the horse back to Jamaica, then sent...