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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite a $2000 endowment used to doll up the Princeton band in gaudy uniforms, observers came back with the impression that Harvard's penniless aggregation was able to outdo them.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND BACK FROM SUCCESSFUL WEEKEND TRIP TO PRINCETON | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

Finns are mainly concerned with marketing timber and with farming; as men of the soil their recreation has been limited to the simple, individualized exercise of track and field. The stoic, hardy peasants are well-adapted to this type of sport; many of them work all day and can train...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finn Stand Against Russia Is Typical Of Traditional Attitude Toward Sports | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

But they very suggestion that four years of school might be accomplished in three turns the significance of Plan C into much deeper channels. Many thinkers besides Stephen Leacock have complained that education, is "catting up" life, that repetition and waste study are becoming a farce. Three years, for example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVOLUTION FOR THE SCHOOLS | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

"I never saw such a funny bunch of boys in my life," said "Jim". "They're up at 6:30 o'clock, at work a little after 7, stop for a bite when someone gets hungry after noon, and then they're at it again all afternoon and to bed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Build Hut In Preparing for Winter Activities | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

The Neutrality Act recently passed by Congress is the latest, most up-to-date and streamlined weapon for keeping the U.S. out of war. It is a product of one of the outstanding modern examples of the democratic process of debate, an unhurried and penetrating discussion of the subject by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME FOR A RE-DEAL | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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