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...varsity should put up tougher opposition tonight. One year ago yesterday the Tigers overwhelmed the varsity, 93-46. This time Harvard will play before a friendly crowd, where the team has won three out of four, and has a better all-around team...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Greater Height Gives Princeton Edge Over Crimson Five Tonight | 2/16/1957 | See Source »

Lined up against U.S. Attorney John Calvin Crawford Jr. (described by a Tennessee judge as "the best all-around U.S. attorney in the country today") were four experienced trial lawyers (including Nashville's Thomas Page Gore, a first cousin to Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore). The attorneys general of Louisiana and Texas sent word that they would attend the trial themselves or have representatives there. Fund-raising drives for the defense were organized in Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and Georgia. The issue to be fought out in Knoxville: Can the federal judiciary properly invoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Schoolroom to Courtroom | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...Scholar is perhaps the most highly prized honor any student can hope to receive in this country. This is not because the stipend is unusually large--it amounts to 600 pounds, or almost 1700 dollars, per year--but rather because a Rhodes has come to symbolize a brand of all-around excellence which will earmark each individual recipient for the rest of his life...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: 'Instincts to Lead' Important Test In Selection of Rhodes Scholars | 12/15/1956 | See Source »

...sentence from this will serve better than any other to explain just why the Rhode Scholarships have come to stand for such a general mark of all-around excellence: "In awarding the scholarships great consideration shall be given to those who have shown during school days that they have instincts to lead and take an interest in their schoolmates which attributes will be likely in after life to guide them to esteem the performance of public duties as their highest...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: 'Instincts to Lead' Important Test In Selection of Rhodes Scholars | 12/15/1956 | See Source »

James has nine returning lettermen on the line, covering every position but right tackle. All-Ivy end Stan Intihar will of course be missed, but James has three experienced men in Bob Blake, Chuck Knight, and Gerry Knapp. Blake and Knight were leading reserves last season, while Knapp, an all-around track man, was a regular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/13/1956 | See Source »

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