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December 1, 1935

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HOLY GROSS BEATS BOSTON COLLEGE; Crusaders Score Three Times in the First Period to Win, 20 to 6. MORRIS THRILLS 21,000 Makes 70-Yard Touchdown Dash on First Play After Opening Kick-Off. HOLY CROSS BEATS BOSTON COLLEGE

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

NEWTON, Mass., Nov. 30. -- Catching the Eagles off guard in the opening period the Crusaders from Holy Cross scored three touchdowns before Boston College was able to catch its breath and defeated the Maroon and Gold eleven on Alumni Field today, 20 to 6, in the annual game between the Jesuit rivals.

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Notable Births

Sola Sierra

1935Sola Sierra, Chilean human rights activist (died 1999)[†]

Sola Sierra HenrĂ­quez was a Chilean human rights activist. She was director of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared organization, and campaigned to find out the truth about the people who were violently disappeared during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

Notable Deaths

Bernhard Schmidt

1935Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (born 1879)[†]

Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt was an Estonian optician. In 1930, he invented the Schmidt telescope, which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making possible for the first time the construction of very large, wide-angled reflective cameras of short exposure time for astronomical research.