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Dates: during 1920-1929
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So far as I know the varsity cricket teams are the only ones in Cambridge that have out-and-out professional coaching (though it must be remembered that in cricket as in other sports the captain performs many of the functions of the American coach). But there are several features...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Student Finds System of Amateur Coaching Falls Far Short of Full Perfection | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

Last fall, "John Brown's Body" was published. To accomplish this work, Mr. Benet lived in the South of France on a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, which enabled him to devote most of his time to the writing of the book, without being disturbed by financial worry.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION MEMBERS WILL HEAR BENET TOMORROW | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

Short but raucous has been the life of the tabloid Manhattan pornoGraphic. Unlucky lately has been its Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden. Last June, Colyumist Walter Winchell left him for the New York Mirror, a rival tabloid; last July, Editor Emile Henry Gauvreau did the same (TIME, June 17, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chemise Sheet | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

The eastern undergraduate need not become too self-laudatory in his new found mental balance. It has been the constant stiffening of faculty requirements that has driven him into scholastic work to a degree undreamed of by a previous college generation. When it becomes necessary to devote the greater part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUE AND CRY | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

"The greatest need of many college students is an idea of how to apportion their time. This knowledge should be taught in all schools, but is not. For that reason it would be a wise idea for colleges to devote some of their time to individual instruction for incoming students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: READING, STUDYING MORE POPULAR NOW | 10/30/1929 | See Source »

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