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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are 76 students at Stanford on Buck Club grant-in-aids. Of these, 24 are Varsity football players, and of these two dozen less than a half-dozen started against your ill-fated grid team. The other 52 men receiving help with their tuition are engaged in non-revenue producing sports such as tennis, swimming, baseball and basketball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Funds on the Farm | 2/17/1950 | See Source »

...fading aristocracy rather than a rising bourgeoisie. In adapting this play to the American scene, Joshua Logan has carried this treatment further by indicating that the new classes were not ready for their new position, and in doing this he transforms a fine naturalistic drama into a less brilliant but still effective picture of social tragedy. In addition he brings back the always welcome Helen Hayes...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 2/17/1950 | See Source »

Anthony Quinn, as Stella's animal-like husband, has a less complex part to play. He mirrors this nature faultlessly in a lumbering gait and heavy voice. His elemental character is complemented by the similar temperament of his wife. Played with calm and comprehending dignity by Mary Walsh, she becomes a genuine human being who can do nothing to help one whom she loves...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 2/15/1950 | See Source »

After thirty minutes of uneventful hockey the varsity sextet suddenly brake loose with three goals in less than a minute and a half and thereby provided itself with the margin of victory ever Northeastern at the Arena last night...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Crimson Subdues Husky Sextet, 6-3 | 2/14/1950 | See Source »

...ballot with less than 13 names checked was considered valid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open Letter to '50 | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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