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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A pertinent point of the Yale Professor's lecture was that "Alcohol is a poison and a nareotic just like morphine, and a single glass of beer is sufficient to render some men incapable of driving an automobile safely." Professor Carver agreed heartily with this argument, and added that, in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTI - PROHIBITIONISTS HURL DEFI AT HOOVER | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

In the first place the numbers added each year to the classes of musical appreciation at the Music School, while the eminence of the teacher may be the cause of drawing a certain group, indicate a general desire to acquire some sort of idea of "what music is all about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

Several members of the University, a large enough number to cause considerable trouble to college officials, seem to have decided that the old family surname was not of the right calibre to thrive in the Harvard atmosphere. Consequently, names of racial connotation have been discarded, short names have become longer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aspiring Harvard Students Change Names in Attempt to Scale Ladder of Social Success--Others Fail in Spelling | 10/17/1929 | See Source »

The fact that they were both school-boys, one sixteen and one seventeen,--the fact that the former died from injuries sustained in a football game, and that the latter shot himself because he doubted his ability to pass his studies and continue to star on the football field -proves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL FATALITIES | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

They are one (1) Ford, letterd up with clear and not so clever slogans, and the Hasty Pudding initiations. Although they are both much out-of-place in a supposedly enlightened institution like Harvard, they are testify that some undergraduates are still children after all.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

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