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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...less freely interpret those rules. This forces the student to experiment and see how much leeway he can take. He is told that he has "unlimited cuts, as long as his marks are kept up,"; but he usually finds that this concession acts as a boomerang, since his marks won't "keep up" if he starts cutting. The led who would cut the most times without lowering his mark must first know the written or understood course rules on the subject, and then find out how his section man feels about it. Admittedly, this is the wrong attitude to take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUT | 11/27/1940 | See Source »

William Frederick Ogden Thomas Jefferson Albert Stifel II '44 of Mower Hall won the Lampoon treasurer hunt yesterday when he found the prize, poison jelly beans and a Spicy Adventure hidden in John Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY'S TREASURE HUNT WON BY YARDLING FINDING BEANS | 11/27/1940 | See Source »

Harvard's 28 football lettermen will meet in Dillon Field House this afternoon to select a successor to Captain Joe Gardella. There are 12 Juniors who won their H this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUAD MEETS TO CHOOSE CAPTAIN | 11/26/1940 | See Source »

...loose ever since. As a lumberman, harvester and sailor, he discovered art by drawing dirty pictures for his pals. He joined the Navy to get three squares a day, became a top-notch boxer, began painting seriously when he got out in 1926. Settling in California, he rapidly won museum awards, Federal mural jobs; had one-man shows in Los Angeles and in San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Teacher's Show | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Hanover, N. H., an inspired Dartmouth team that had lost more games than it had won this year kept mighty Cornell away from its goal line until three seconds before the final gun. Then, in the snowy dusk, a beautifully timed forward pass gave Cornell the game, 7-10-3. Later, after viewing moving pictures of the game. Referee W. H. Friesell admitted that the winning touchdown was made on an illegal fifth down. Cornell's Athletic Director James Lynah promptly relinquished claim to victory, conceded the game to Dartmouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Titanic Gophers | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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