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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Battalino: a Chicago fight in which he risked his world's featherweight championship against Earl Mastro; by a decision, after ten rounds. C. Top Flight, dark brown two-year-old filly owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and ridden by Jockey "Sonny" Workman: the Pimlico Futurity, her seventh race this season; raising the total of her cash winnings to $219,000, more than any other mare or any two-year-old has ever won before, more than any other race horse has won this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Hallowell finished fifteenth in 1929 and seventh last year. If the Crimson leader shows equal improvement tomorrow he should match strides with McCluskey of Fordham, Barker of N. Y. U., and Chamberlain, individual winner from Michigan State last year. Harvard's last team victory came in 1912; in 1928 J. L. Reid '29 led the field for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN HARVARD HARRIERS SEEK I.C. 4A LAURELS | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...this is unfair to a man of ability who may be excluded because the men from his locality have been chosen. A more progressive plan has been adopted at Harvard where men from districts that ordinarily do not prepare for Harvard are admitted if they rank in the first seventh of their class, and other requirements are satisfied. Here is an unqualified selective process, not one that uses quotas but one that stresses competition. Darwin has shown conclusively that the struggle for existence is the cause of natural selection. Such should be the case in the colleges; for were only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATIONAL EVOLUTION | 11/6/1931 | See Source »

Three guests of honor have been invited to attend the Seventh Intercollegiate Hall on Friday evening before the Harvard--Dartmouth game, and the super Dance to be held on Saturday evening at the Copley--Plaza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE PLANS OF THE INTERCOLLEGIATE BALL | 11/3/1931 | See Source »

...that this is well-known, the movement for public sex education has gone slowly, necessarily from the higher branches downwards. Last week there came evidence of its present situation. Willard Walcott Beatty, superintendent of schools in Bronxville. N. Y., wrote for the New York Times an account of the seventh-grade course which has been given in his schools for the last five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sex in Bronxville | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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