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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...candidates for the University basketball team have begun informal practice this week in Hemenway Gymnasium, preparatory to the opening of regular winter practice next Monday. Some 20 men have been working out daily this week, and many more are expected to report at 7.30 Monday, when formal sessions will begin...
...concert, which will begin at 8.30 o'clock, will be over in time for dances, it is announced. Tickets are on sale at the Coop, and at the offices of the Harvard Glee Club in Paine Hall...
...here were bank-branches with a topheavy proportion of notes to cash. Even the biggest and most secure branches, such as General Electric, American Telephone &Telegraph, United States Steel, constituted inflated currency when their securities stood at 403, 310 and 261 respectively. So long as the depositors did not begin to brood over this inflation, no harm was done. But so soon as the lines started forming at the paying teller's window, the Crash was inevitably swift...
...crash came on Oct. 23, 1929, is as mysterious (and as unimportant) as why the World War chanced to begin on Aug. 4, 1914. If some trace the War no further than to an archducal assassination, then others might trace the Crash to a variety of such moments as that when Goldman Sachs terminated the syndicate on their Blue Ridge investment trust. Vital point is the undermining of popular confidence that ended in the crash...
When the University polo team starts indoor practice during the first week of December, Coach F. D. Sharp will be forced to begin the development of a new team to replace the champions of last year. E. T. Gerry '31, captain of this year's team is the only letter man to return, but four of the Freshman players from the past season will be available. The University squad consists of E. T. Gerry '31, H. I. Nicholas '31, Crispin Cooke '32, A. L. Castle '32, W. F. Luton '32, N. W. Kimball '32, P. L. Richards...