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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ability and reputation, G. N. Burns '29, will also defend his 145 pound class championship. Last year the bout he had with E. A. Sachs '28 was the feature one of the evening. Due to better conditions and superior ability to take punishment, however, Burns finally out pointed his rival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY BOXERS TO VIEW FOR CHAMPIONSHIP | 3/24/1928 | See Source »

...first place let it be understood that the current number of the Advocate is preeminently an average issue, which means that it cannot rival the best productions of Harvard literary genius of the past, but that its material, on the other hand, must in nowise be considered as below the usual standard of Advocate endeavor. And an issue of whatever nature, conceived and produced during the drab weeks when winter has gone and spring has not yet appeared, may be considered of no ordinary merit if it lives up to even the usual standard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURRENT ADVOCATE IS COUNTED ONLY AVERAGE BY CRIMSON REVIEWER | 3/23/1928 | See Source »

Accessible to three-fourths of the country's population, containing a dozen peaks higher than anything north of Virginia's southern boundary, except Mt. Washington in New Hampshire (6293 ft.), still frequented by Cherokee Indians, the new park will be advertised as a rival of Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite. In place of naked peaks it raises up lofty, rolling domes fringed with balsam. Its bears are black instead of grizzled and the deer frisk white tails in place of the western black. For lodgepole pines and wind-torn spruce, are substituted every variety of tree and shrub that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smoky Park | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...attitude toward painting that most of the artists have adopted consciously or unconsciously. It seems to be recognized that at the present day the independent picture does not lend itself, as it once did, to the expression of our more serious and fundamental ideas; in this respect it cannot rival the drama or the written word. At the same time it is felt that mere naturalism--the exact description of objects--may well be left to the photographer or the inferior painter who is entirely concerned with making things "like"--anyone can do it by studying the laws of perspective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR POPE WRITES ON MODERN FRENCH ART IN BOSTON EXHIBITION | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Smith not only received the greatest number of total votes, but also obtained twice as many votes for first place as Hoover, his nearest rival. Dawes received four firsts, while Reed, Lowden, and Norris got one each. Curtis, Walsh, and Ritchie got no first places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMITH PICKED BY LIBERALS AS PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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