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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telling those nearby just what this or that man ought to have done. At times the Band played and the inspiring notes of "O'er the stands in flaming crimson" completely drowned out the pitiful efforts of Ten Thousand Men of Harvard who could have loosed a volume of sound which would have swept the "Yellow Jackets" off the field into the Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Wrong With Harvard? | 10/13/1927 | See Source »

...Navy are required to take one of these summer cruises. Fifteen members of the class of 1930 left Boston on June 25 on board the cruiser Florida, especially assigned by the Navy Department to carry the Naval Science units of Harvard, Yale, and Georgia Tech. Proceeding down Long Island Sound, the cruiser touched at Newport and New Haven, where the Yale unit, already veterans of a week's service, disembarked. The cruiser carried the Harvard sailors to Annapolis, where the contingent spent July 4, and sailed for home, arriving in Boston on July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONE VIGILS, HARD STUDY, AND STOKING DUTY LOT OF CRUISING STUDENTS | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

Immediately there broke out a hullabaloo. Fighting with chairs, clubs, bottles, 300 Nationlist opponents of General Smuts drove his supporters to the wall and captured the platform, where they sang and danced to the sound of the tearing of British flags used to decorate the hall. Many bleeding faces bore evidence of the affray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: South African Riot | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...Five minutes before the wedding the youth, learning all, is distraught with her deceit. Furious at the collapse of his true love she rips off her wedding dress and flees the gathering, just as the guest of honor a stuffy, haughty prince, sweeps majestically upon the scene. This may sound pretty palpitating, but one must listen to a lot of sluggish stuff before the climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...sound of foot by day or night

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright Doom | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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