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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to "Sacred Subject" (TIME, Nov. 5, p. 14), by no stretch of the imagination can it sensibly be inferred that Mr. Gay offered an insult to our President. Unlike the demagogic gesture of Chappie, his remarks were consistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1934 | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

Freddy Moseley's position at left half is the only berth where there has been any alteration in any of the practice sessions this week. Due to Moseley's recent injuries it seems unlikely that he will be able to last the full stretch and for this reason Jehnny Adzingian has been training a his understudy in both the running and passing departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson and Blue Elevens Hold Light Practice So Injuries May Be Avoided | 11/22/1934 | See Source »

...first time in four weeks the Varsity will have a chance to catch its breath and try to solve its troubles without the worry of a major opponent. The long stretch of defeats by Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Army has at last ended and there is a supposed breather ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY GIVEN A CHANCE FOR REST AFTER HARD GRIND | 11/13/1934 | See Source »

...Casey will start and all-Sophomore unit composed of Bilodeau, Ford, Ecker, and Blackwood. That combination worked out with the "A" line again yesterday, and everything points to it for opening honors. Little Bill Parquette, the possible alternate at left half and pass expert extraordinary, was given a full stretch of services yesterday but did not run through signals with the Sophomore combine

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANE LIKELY TO START AT GUARD ON SATURDAY | 11/8/1934 | See Source »

...editorial, was evidently planning to duplicate the announced policy of the Advocate. I showed at some length that this policy had been carried into effect, but my words seem to have been in vain as far as convincing Mr. Cherington was concerned. The Advocate is, by no stretch of even Mr. Cherington's imagination, the "organ of a certain specialized literary school," i.e., what Mr. Cherington quaintly calls "T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, & Co." Mr. Cherington should know, after four years of Harvard College, that Messrs. Eliot and Pound, though they once had much in common, have been poles apart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mother Advocate "Sorely Tried" | 11/8/1934 | See Source »

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