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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course could be operated on a system somewhat similar to the one that is now in use at Yale University. The students would be charged an initial payment of $20 for the fall months and an additional green fee each month. For students who had rather play in the Spring the fee would be somewhat higher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELD GOLF PROPOSITION IS ABANDONED BY H. A. A. | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

Coincident with this announcement of recognition from highest English tennis potentates of the importance of perfect tennis education came a similar, more general recognition in the U. S. The U. S. Lawn Tennis Association drew up resolutions nurturing professionalism. Careful co-operation with the Professional Lawn Tennis Association was recommended. Last summer's loss of the Davis Cup to France unquestionably prompted the resolutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pro Professionals | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...West, where democracy takes more obvious forms". While the author points out the deplorable falsity of the motion pictures affecting to depute undergraduate life and the justifiable student derision, he not only succeeds in digging pitfalls for motion picture directors in general but succeeds in relegating himself to a similar precarious position. For while undergraduates might tolerate a cinematic absurdity in which the beautiful "co-ed" acts as water boy to the football team and promises herself to the man who makes the winning touchdown, they certainly will not tolerate having aspersions cast upon their manly ability to appreciate football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPASSE | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Another undergraduate literary supplement makes its how in the first appearance of "The Literary Critic" sponsored by the editors of The Dartmouth. Similar in form and content to its contemporaries at Yale, Princeton, New York University and Harvard, the publication aims, according to its prefatory editorial, to combine "usefulness and amusement". And, like the progeny of the above named journals it is obviously a collegiate imitation of the literary supplements of the metropolitan dailies a fact which in no way detracts from its worthiness and which. If successfully accomplished, enhances in value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERARY LAPSES | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...familiarity. There was no disturbance to mar the festivities, and the welcome to the Free State President was genuine and hearty. The fact that the reception was an unqualified success is attested by the fact that, according to general agreement, more skill hats were in evidence than on any similar occasion on record, whether in honor of royalty, movie stars or prize fighters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANGLOPHILE | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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