Word: alonzo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alonzo Stagg, famous coach at Chicago University, asks friends of college football to combat the forces staging professional games. He fears that American Rugby will become contaminated by the spirit of professional play and does not conceal a belief that the touts and gamblers of other sports will be diverted to football for a seasonal livelihood. He cites instances of amateurs being induced to enter professional games under an assumed name...
...Coolidge wrote to Dr. Alonzo G. Howard of Boston that he would probably accept the latter's offered gift of a wire-haired fox terrier, Peter Pan. Laddie Boy was given away by Mrs. Harding to one of the White House guards. Peter Pan, three months old, one of six children, son of Prides Hill Sicyon and Lady Babbie, bids fair to become Presidential hound...
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion, has broken the charmed circle of Culture. A portrait of the pugilist by Alonzo V. Lewis, of Seattle, hangs in an exhibition of Western art at the Kansas City Art Institute, between a Spring Landscape and Indian Summer. The director of the Institute is in two minds about it. His first emotion was that "art was being degraded"; his second that "boxing is a man's game and a natural occupation " and therefore presumably as worthy of perpetuation in oil as any other slice of life. There is ample precedent; the Luxembourg...
...Solomon Wheaton Prize for reading, with an income of $1000 went to Allen Williams Clark 3E.T.S., of Boston, while the William H. Lincoln Prizes for reading, with incomes of $35 and $25 were awarded to Richard Preston 2E.S., of Lexington, and to Francis Alonzo Caswell 1E.T.S., of Salem, respectively. The William Otis Smith Prize of $100 for excellence in the Department of Homiletics was divided between Allen Williams Clark 3E.T.S. and Herbert Brooke Morris 3E.T.S...
...Alonzo Kingman Paine, M.D., Assistant in Gynaecology (Courses for Graduates...