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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One of the Mt. Auburn Street boys became suspicious when he saw that the published odds were 2 to 1 on Harvard. He called up the bank and stopped payment on all the checks. Then he and his cronies kidnapped the assistant with lures of more bets, holding him until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS KIDNAP BOOKIE'S HENCHMAN, GET BACK $250 | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

The Administration may counter that it has in the past recognized this necessity of creating frozen associate professorships when "exceptional circumstances" warranted. It's interpretation, of course, limited "exceptional circumstances" to cases where men had been retained on the faculty so long that any sensible or humane criteria dictated their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALKING TURKEY | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

Vag opened up his copy of "Tilly in Turkey-land", as he did every year at this time, and started to read the nineteen hundred and thirty-ninth chapter--

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

It is doubtful that all of these things will happen and that a very mediocre Bulldog eleven will transform itself into a great eleven Saturday. But any one of the three may conceivably take place when Captain Macdonald's men find themselves lined up with a Blue team facing them...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

Don Lowry participated in everything but the bag work, while the other casualties, Joe Gardella and Greeley Summers, were jogging. Jim Devine's head cold again kept him out of all action. Mose Hallett was at left tackle on the B team yesterday and shapes up as the first tackle...

Author: By Donald Peddie, | Title: GRID SQUAD GIVEN LENGTHY WORKOUT POINTING FOR ELIS | 11/22/1939 | See Source »

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