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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are no cars at Michigan, and Detroit is over 40 miles away, so there are parties galore within walking distance. Every weekend some one of the important fraternities gives a party; during the football season, there are innumerable social functions which may be more aptly described as brawls. For...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Average Michigan Undergraduate Stays at Home, But Not to Study--Fraternities Compete in Playing Host to Harvard | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

Starting at a fast clip, the Yale team held the lead during the first mile. Then a Crimson group passed their opponents, but Captain W. F. Smith of the Elis kept a long lead over the field. Following him at about 50 yards Hallowell watched Smith until the last two...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HARRIERS OVERWHELM ELI FOR SIXTH CONSECUTIVE WIN AGAINST BLUE | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

The University soccer team will present a new lineup when it opposes the Navy at Annapolis this afternoon in the first of its two games of the Southern trip. Victory in these two holiday clashes will mean that Harvard, for the first time in several years, will enter the Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRONG SOCCER ELEVEN ENCOUNTERS NAVY TODAY | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

ON the jacket of this recent novel, a statement is made to which we should like to take immediate ex-exception. "The readers of Mr. Weston's first novel will not be surprised by the original manner in which he presents a powerful story"--so runs the brief puff. Well...

Author: By Albert G. Churchill, | Title: Tattered Madonna | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

In "The Patchwork Madonna", Mr. Weston makes use of two central characters, a psycho-analyst and his patient, the London actress, Creda Reid. The chapters consist of the progressive consultations in the treatment of her case. And since the actress is indeed a pretty well tattered madonna, a certain amount...

Author: By Albert G. Churchill, | Title: Tattered Madonna | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

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