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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With little experience, the Freshman team enters the lists against an unknown quantity with a landslide 11-0 victory over Tufts last week...
...surprise appointment was that of Britain's John Barbirolli, 36, an unknown so far as most Philharmonic subscribers were concerned. Conductor Barbirolli was born of a French mother and an Italian father who played the violin under Toscanini at La Scala. Except for his music the young conductor seems typically British. He was born in Bloomsbury, loves Bloomsbury, lives in Bloomsbury in a four-room flat. He relishes Yorkshire ham and cricket matches. But, like the Barbirollis before him, he took naturally to a musical career. At 11 he made a concert debut as a cellist. Later he toured...
...faster than the blood of normal individuals. Two young Cuban physicians who had arrested hemorrhages with transfusions from splenectomized individuals suggested that Drs. Castillo and Núñez do the same. They did so, 22 times, taking blood from one spleenless man, two spleenless women. Gradually, for reasons unknown to medicine, the bleeding diminished, finally ceased. Fortnight ago his doctors told the Count that their measures had not cured him permanently but assured him that he was well enough to travel. With his right foot in an enormous boot and two canes to help him walk, the famed hemophiliac...
...Unknown to the undergraduate, groups have been at work for the last three years in an attempt to weigh down the back of his study door with brass armor plate. It's all a part of a general campaign to equip each room of the College with a complete roster of all former occupants. For example, we quote from a letter recently received by the Alumni Bulletin from a Mr. Miles L. Hanley of Madison, Wisconsin, who took a Masters degree here in 1927 and who appears to be one of the leaders of the present drive...
...Jackson, played by Al Jolson, is a great guy. He helps numerous chorus girls keep their jobs, he gives large sums of money to unknown gentlemen he meets in the streets, he loves little children, and he gives his fiancee an unlimited checking account...