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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football games have drawn capacity crowds more than once, and the Yale contest generally manages to fill up every seat in view. Currently, the student attendance remains fairly constant, with local customers and travelling fans swallowing the rest of the stalls in proportion to the Crimson squad's seasonal success and consequent importance of the match. Nobody has gone on record with a prediction of this fall's future, but tickets to the remaining tussles are going fast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Stadium | 10/26/1946 | See Source »

...much does a rooster's success depend on his social position? At Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Alphaeus M. Guhl and Don C. Warren, fowl scientists, sought the answer to this question, financially important to poultrymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Peck & Peck | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...rooster's success with the hens is largely governed by the number of matings he can complete before other roosters interfere. Even in the close quarters of the experimental pen, the social preeminence of the top rooster (Alpha) discouraged interference. In 46 days, he attempted 175 matings, scored 112 successes. Rooster No. 2 (Beta) made 244 tries, succeeded only 54 times. Omega (the No. 3 rooster) made only eight tries, and did not succeed at all. Even when given a harem of his own, he sulked in impotent frustration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Peck & Peck | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...cursory comparison of the list of winners and the original slate of nominations shows a marked parallel between position on the ballot and success in the election, a parallel that dramatizes student apathy toward the Council, and at the same time exposes the weakness of the Council in managing all the interlocking ramifications which go into the administration of a democratic election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listing Heavily | 10/16/1946 | See Source »

Julius Caesar--The Boston Tributary Theatre follows its leadoff success. "Doctor Faustus," with this Eliot Duvey production, at New England Mutual Hall Friday and Saturday evenings. Duvey in the role of Brutus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN BOSTON | 10/15/1946 | See Source »

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