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...perennial bills which now decorate Harvard desks throughout the college. What with the unfortunate outcome of the Michigan game and the past unpleasantness in Wall Street, the financial atmosphere of Cambridge has become distinctly heavy. A term bill is bad enough, the anticipated outlay for the Yale week-end will be worse, and for those who sport license plates of dashing colors the thought of registration and insurance is the last straw. That such an accumulation of gargantuan expenses should be presented at one fell swoop is inexcusable. Does it mean that Harvard undergraduates will have to follow those...
With the glamor of a "big game" absent from Cambridge this week-end there is an opportunity to realize that intercollegiate football has no monopoly on the athletic interest of Harvard men during the fall months which the public dedicates to the roaring stadium. When Saturday after Saturday thousands of spectators envelop the chosen game in a sheen of frantic glory, the numerous minor sports go quietly on their own ways asking no share of the ballyhoo which rings from all sides in their ears...
...This week-end there is occasion for those undergraduates who find themselves left in Cambridge to do a little exploring on playing fields whose informal air of good sportsmanship is certain to prove an attraction. Harvard's athletic policy has long been established on the principle of the greatest possible number of participants. The men who have discovered the benefits received in such humble places as the lacrosse field, the rifle range, and the soccer field have gone a long way towards answering the charge that Saturday football spectacles are the sine qua non of college life...
...This week-end the Flying Club is undertaking its first cross-country flight of the season. The plane, piloted by R. Gilmor '31 and G. Rand '32, will fly to the Aviation Country Club at Hicksville, Long Island, today and will be flown from there by other members who are spending the week-end on Long Island. The purpose of the flight is to provide experience in cross-country flying for qualified pilots, and to create an outside interest in the club and its activities...
Harvard undergraduates may fly to the Michigan game this week-end, according to arrangements now being made by the Colonial Air Transport. "The Harvard Football Special" as the plane, or planes, will be known, will take off from the East Boston Airport either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, according to the wishes of those making reservations...