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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather has been miserable for baseball ever since the start of the season, and undergraduates seem to have lost interest in the Harvard nine. The league campaign has not been crowned with success, but the Crimson athletes can salvage much from the wreckage with a good performance against the high-riding Elis from New Haven...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Bollos' success with current crews may have had something to do with the Eliot victory. Five of the members of the first eight were rowing last fall, and until recently this spring, Ev Walkley was stroking the fourth Varsity with Ewing Walker, Eliot seven man, right behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT EIGHTS SWEEP RIVER IN DOUBLES | 5/23/1940 | See Source »

...ritual is said to include wrestling matches (from which they often emerge in tatters) and critical bull sessions in which members tell each other their faults, prod each other to strive for Success. Main room in the tomb is reputed to have a marble altar and an illuminated skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Skull & Bones | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Grant explains his later success by better parts. Says he: "The characters can do something. For instance, they drink." Grant himself, who seldom refuses a glass, has scaled the dizzier heights of Hollywood society, and his New Year's Eve parties are among Hollywood's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Reviewing the history of U. S. efforts at internationalism, Historian Beard does not spare the rod. Neither foreign trade nor foreign lending, he observes, has been a dazzling success for the U. S.; U. S. internationalism has not availed to prevent war. But he insists that whenever the issue has been put to them directly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fundamentalist v. Modernist | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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