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This is, indeed, a most clever bit of deduction on the part of the Harvard students. But the transfers have a different story to tell. "I just changed," one of them says, "because I thought I'd enjoy going to college here more than I would have at Harvard." Short, terse, accurate. This statement should be recorded as one of the pithiest single sentences in the history of transferring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Dastardly Eli Plot | 10/6/1934 | See Source »

Still another possible change in the lineup came to light yesterday when Jim Spring replaced Bill Lane at left tackle during a good part of the scrimmage. Spring was going very well, whereas Lane, who had improved a great deal in the previous sessions this week, was a bit off his game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GUNDLACH TO START IN BATES GAME SATURDAY | 10/4/1934 | See Source »

...insiders want to hook up the Roosevelt administration with the demise of the Crimson nine. Wild rumors now in the air say that President Roosevelt became suddenly solicitous of his international relations and sent a hurry-up radiogram to Coach Chauncey et cle. telling him to take it a bit easy. After winning five straight games in Hawaii, one can see that things looked pretty gloomy for peaceful relations with Japan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

...winning ball team with geisha girls and have a winning ball team left. And when you add a dash of fried eels for lunch and a bit of raw fish for dinner, the result is appalling. That was another thing that was bound to threw a nine off its stride. They say that you could get cooked food but it consisted of fish heads with the eye-balls served up as a delicacy. Even roast prime ribs of beef an just would have been welcome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

Fine Arts: "Les Trols Mousquetaires"--a good version of Dumas' perpetual story of chivalry and adventure at the court of Louis XIII. A bit too long and somewhat confusing since all the characters look amazingly alike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

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