Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportunity to realize that intercollegiate football has no monopoly on the athletic interest of Harvard men during the fall months which the public dedicates to the roaring stadium. When Saturday after Saturday thousands of spectators envelop the chosen game in a sheen of frantic glory, the numerous minor sports go quietly on their own ways asking no share of the ballyhoo which rings from all sides in their ears...
...intercollegiate football contests owe a good part of their present position to the notice which the press and radio have brought them, there is no doubt that the singularly different development of minor sports has been possible only through the salutary neglect which has left them to struggle along on their own feet...
...characters (none of which all very well developed), the author has two coldblooded respectable villains, a distinguished authoress, a pure, untainted heroine, a weak-willed mother, a detective, a hero in the form of a nephew of the authoress, and a few minor personages playing lesser parts. In the way of situations, Mr. Reeve has an equally wide variety, none of them wholly credible or real...
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, will give a concert in Symphony Hall, playing the Brahms "Sonata in F Minor, Op. 5", Prokotieff's "Diabolic Suggestion's", "Joyous Isle" by Debussy, Chopin's "Polonaise in A-Sharp Minor", "Impromptu in A-Flat," and "Brilliant Waltz", and the Liszt "Fantasia on themes from Mozart's Opera, 'Don Juan...
...originally of Milan, Italy. An avowed antiFascist, di Rosa escaped from Italy over a year ago, crossing the French frontier on skis at night. In Paris he studied law at the Sorbonne, only leaving his little room in the Latin Quarter, to attend meetings of the Matteoti Club, a minor anti-Fascist secret society. It was at a meeting of this club that di Rosa won the honor of being delegated to shoot Prince Umberto...