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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lucky Night," with Myrna Loy and Robert Taylor, should be swallowed only with a stiff antidote of Jonathan Edwards' Sermons. This hangover from the screwball comedies of Carole Lombard would be otherwise too tough to take. A night of recklessness and a drunken marriage, with all the usual complications, results in just another telling,--and a too, too giddy one--of an old story. The plot has no excuse except as a vehicle for MGM's big stars, and if the picture is merely a planetarium, it very definitely needs more power in the projector. The film is nothing more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/18/1939 | See Source »

BERKELEY, Cal--When Jacobus ten Brooke, 27, brilliant, blind law graduate of the University of California, goes to Harvard this fall on one of the much-coveted Brandeis research fellowships, he will take with him "his eyes...

Author: By The UNITED Press), | Title: Blind Law Student Receives Brandeis Fellowship; Wife Serves as His Eyes | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

Selection of Ivy Orator for 1989 will take place at 3:20 this afternoon in Bolden Chapel. Professor Packard will preside, while members of the Class Day Committee will choose the winner from the three contestants who survived a preliminary competition held earlier this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS DAY COMMITTEE TO CHOOSE IVY ORATOR | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

When professors and counsellors meet this week to settle the fate of the American History Plan they can take the easy way out by agreeing to muddle along for another year, or perhaps for four years, as Professor Jones has suggested. But the Plan's California angels are not going to continue shelling out twenty-five thousand dollars a year if no concrete results can be shown before 1942. The History Program must be oriented in one of two opposite directions: into the formal curriculum, or into a new realm of extra-curricular education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR CIVILIZED AMERICANS | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

...straight from the batboy," declared Elmer Green, Lampoon Janitor, last night. "The CRIMSON ought to take my boys by at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: o o o o O O! "We'll Take The 'Poons"--Crimson | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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