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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although no definite statement to that effect was made, the general impression gathered at the dinner was that the open end of the Stadium will be filled in with steel stands to replace the much-discussed wood structure which has been in use during past years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Horween Will Return to Guide 1929 Gridiron Destinies | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...after whom Downing Street, London, was named. George Downing had all his education in Harvard College; and as we find him, when representing Cromwell in France, carrying on a two-hour conversation in Latin with Cardinal Mazarin, we may infer that Dunster's College law of 1642, forbidding the use of the "mother tongue" even in conversation, was fairly well observed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First President of Harvard Gives College Longevity | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...emphatically; over the radio was the message proclaimed; voices were even heard from the skies. Yet the cry of the scoffer persisted, and though but an undertone it would not be suppressed. The bandage slipped, said some; others of more astuteness detected clear proof of Machiavellian schemes involving the use of drugged coffee. But at last the faintest murmur of discord is doomed to disappear, and not from any outward violence but through inward conviction. For, as is announced in another part of to-day's CRIMSON, the not unheralded blind-fold test on behalf of Old Gold cigarettes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PASS THE COUGH-DROPS | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...scenery of the show is stored in the basement of the Harvard Germanic Museum, ready for use at any time, and the costumes, rented for the occasion in New York, have been retained in Cambridge. If the play is presented again, all the former participants have signified their willingness to take part in it. The patronesses, moreover, many of whom were erroneously reported as having withdrawn, stand behind "Fiesta" as before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL RECONSIDER H.D.C. PRODUCTION | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

...While guards within the walls are unarmed, we have an armory for shot and riot guns and gas bombs. We have never had occasion to use them, and I hope we never shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sing Sing | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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