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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evenly matched game, the Ramblers and Winthrop House fought to a scoreless tie yesterday afternoon. Although the Ramblers had the upper hand in the first half, the Puritans rallied in the second, and kept their rivals from scoring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAMBLERS FIGHT TO TIE WITH WINTHROP HOUSE | 10/27/1931 | See Source »

There has never been so propitious a moment for starting such a movement. The Freshmen are together in the Union, and the Houses provide common eating places for upper-classmen. Although until now the plan to foster French and German conversation has been only for Freshmen, there is no reason why it can not be instituted in some of the Houses, perhaps in smaller groups, but therefore to greater advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEAKING IN MANY TONGUES | 10/23/1931 | See Source »

...before the Yale game. For several days before the eventful evening, influential, albeit slightly bored Seniors canvassed the dormitories for recruits; lethargic meetings were held, resolutions passed, and a few ambitious first-year men scoured the city for red lights. When the big night arrived, only a handful of upper-classmen were pres- ent, a group so small that the gathering would have been a complete failure had it not been for the presence of the whole Freshman Class, which had turned out en masse for their first--and last--college football rally. The members of the team, grouped together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Upton Writes on the Present Status of Football in Relation to Undergraduates | 10/15/1931 | See Source »

Following the dinner tomorrow J. H. William, professor of Economics, will speak in the upper common room on the subject. "Does President Hoover's Program Mark the Turn of the Economic Tide?" It is expected that an Adams House Economic Society will be organized following the discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADAMS HOUSE HOLDS FIRST OF SERIES OF THURSDAY DINNERS | 10/14/1931 | See Source »

...simple impulse to snatch and steal, rather than any motive of politics or protest seemed to inflame the mob. At the Gallowgate, where the famous Battle of the Butts occurred in 1544, heads were bloodied. Scots fought with sticks and bottles while their gudewives cheered them on from the upper stones, threw down broken furniture, flower pots, and in one case a large tin trunk on the heads of the hard-pressed constabulary. One gigantic battler kept six constables busy sitting on his head, chest, arms and legs in the station house. Mr. McGovern, M. P., limped into police court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Violence to the Lieges | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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