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With several changes in the lineup as a result of the respective showings during the mid-west trip, the Varsity basketball quintet clashes with a once defeated M. I. T. team at 8 O'clock tonight in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...weekly magazine published with a slender circulation in Oklahoma and other States in the Mid-West has made a bid for subscriptions by one of its numerous resorts to yellow journalism. "In its issue of July 17, 1933, TIME went out of its way to libel and defame the name and reputation of Charles N. Haskell, the first state governor of Oklahoma. As a delegate to the constitutional convention, as a governor of the State and as one of its delegates to four national conventions, as the publisher of a great newspaper and as a city, community and State builder...
Fesler in coming to Harvard plans to introduce a new regime and to mold the team according to the form used extensively in the Mid-West. Emphasis is laid much more strongly on basketball in Western Universities...
...letter goes home once every two weeks, and many replied that they never write unless prompted by a stormy letter or a telegram. Eight per cent used wire exclusively. In Lowell one man was found who has been writing a letter every day to a girl in the mid-west for the last two years. "At first I used to write twice a day, but it was hard to keep up." He had no idea how he managed to fill the space...
...Tribune" seems to embody those very qualities which you say the people of the West criticize, and in any case is very imprudent and uncalled for. The Tribune's editorial was a bit extreme, but did not call for an outburst of criticism, directed against the Mid-West, more violent than weighty. It seems to me that you should not insult that element of the student body which gives Harvard its national fame. If Harvard were merely a local Massachusetts institution, there would be no one to carry its policies and traditions to the rest of the country...