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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team will not compete as a Harvard unit since the tournament is a series of matches between mixed doubles, but is entered individually. The squad, which has been practicing on the Longwood courts, has abandoned its sessions during the week of the tournament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS SQUAD TO ENGAGE WITH FAIR SEX IN TOURNEY | 3/21/1928 | See Source »

...Last year he used two steel cylinders, equipped with small platinum balls, pendent in a 35 foot pit. By measuring their mutual attraction and regarding the earth's pull as a constant, he could discover a unit in which to compute the earth's attraction. This time his steel cylinders are equipped with small glass balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Of the Earth | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Among God's gifts to the Divisionals-ridden Senior are survey books,--volumes with broad, comprehensive treatments of the whole subject, outlines which bring out of the obscurity of "periods" a unit which may be viewed for perhaps the first time as such. ENGLISH LITERATURE IN ITS FOREIGN RELATIONS (1300-1800). By Lourie Magnus, E. P. Dutton, New York, 1927, $3.), is a recent and adequate attempt to fulfill this need. Mr. Magnus is especially interested in Continental influences on English Literature. He treats the subject completely and in a scholarly fashion. The result is a valuable addition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

...undergraduate school at New Haven and is not conscious that he is an integral part of his class, the natural reaction is to seek out men of his own stamp rather than resort to the company of the fellow next door. Instead of having a small and solid class unit, the tendency is for similar men of like interests to get together in their own tight little worlds and carry on to the exclusion of others. The transition of fraternities into eating clubs has fostered the development of these cliques, contrary to all the traditions and democratic principles of Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE OF "OLD BRICK ROW" DAYS NOW BURIED UNDER INFLUX OF MODERN EVILS | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

Thurgood Marshall, the first negative speaker, introduced the definition of "intermixing" as "intimate and indiscriminate association." Such intermixing produces descendants neither colored nor white, frequently ostracized by both, he went on to say. "The family unit is destroyed, and all genuine society suffers. All intermixing in times of slavery was illegal intermixing. Perhaps some one in the audience would make this legal. But did Prohibition purge John Barleycorn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACE INTERMIXTURE IS DISCUSSED WITHOUT VOTE | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

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