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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fence rushes, cap burnings, maypoles, class dinners and other pleasantries and exchanges between freshmen and sophomores have long constituted an integral part of the campus scene at practically every college in the land, with the possible indifferent exception of Harvard, where such juvenile foolishness has never obtained, but where private enterprise on the part of undergraduates has annually inaugurated minor breaches of the academic peace. Up to four years ago the freshman-sophomore fence rush at Yale was as much of an institution as Derby Day, and the only blot on the otherwise fair record of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vanishing College Traditions | 4/25/1930 | See Source »

Violence. In Calcutta, several days before St. Gandhi reached Dandi, a disturbance occurred when carters blocked the great Howrah Bridge at rush hour by removing the wheels of their carts. Police said that stones were thrown at them. They replied with bullets. Six men were killed, 60 wounded, but the disturbance then quieted. On the day of the salt-making, followers of Mr. Gandhi squatted down in front of a train near Bombay, but were beaten off by police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Gandhi at Dandi | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...PROPER CREDIT STOP PLEASE RUSH ANSWER COLLECT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 7, 1930 | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...allowed to tackle the runner--although interference is not allowed. The scoring system reminds one of the one that was in vogue in America years ago. A dropkick,--made while the player runs down the field with the ball, stops, and kicks--counts four points, while a rush over the goal line nets the side that carried it over three points. A try after touchdown adds another two to the total. Yale played a game with a team from Philadelphia the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/2/1930 | See Source »

SUBWAY EXPRESS?Double murder in the rush hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Mar. 31, 1930 | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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