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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During his nine years at Harvard, his Varsity teams have won 50 matches against 13 defeats. In the two seasons 1934 and 1935, the Epee team twice won the Intercollegiate championship, while Hurd, who had never held a foil before college, placed first in the championship match with that weapon, and later went to the Olympics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rene Peroy Willing to Fence All-Comers Despite 53 Years | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

With 27 events scheduled, W. Scott Long, Jr. '39 will be the first man in the Foil, Lester C. Mill '39 in the Epee, and Joseph T. Doyle '39 in the Saber. There will be nine events with each weapon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FENCERS FACE BROWN | 2/12/1938 | See Source »

...athletic endowment. President Conant thinks that there exists a very great need for scholarships. Many other people think that there exists a very great need for an athletic endowment. By failing to make any mention of the latter need in his report, the document which will form a chief weapon for Harvard solicitors in the next twelve months, President Conant has by implication denied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARE WE POSITIVE, SIR? | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Fighting a losing battle against time, and using the same weapon as the phonograph salesmen, anthropologists and folk-locists the world over are doing what they can to salvage the remnants of primitive music. Patient, ill-paid scholars sweat through the tropics holding microphones, and even old-fashioned dictaphones, to the mouths of aging tribesmen, hoping to catch and preserve melodies that are on the point of death. Collections of their records are kept in museums. Now & then a few are put on sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Melody Hunters | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Secondary picketing is no new labor weapon like the Sit-Down but its legality is by no means generally conceded. A few States forbid picketing in any form, some that allow direct picketing forbid secondary, many have no picketing statutes at all. Generally conceded, however, is the illegality of the "secondary boycott" which applies indiscriminate pressure on a third and disinterested party. In its decision last week the New York State Court of Appeals drew the line between seconds rv picketing and secondary boycott by order-ing the Butchers' Union to confine its pressure to the non-union products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Secondary Picketing | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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