Word: barres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wine will be freely supplied for those Crimson rooters who bring women to the Yale game festivities, but song will be notable by its absence. E. Barr Peterson '47, chairman of the Glee Club, announced tonight that the singers would not be going to New Haven for a joint performance with the Yale group as had originally been planned...
Renewing the custom, unobserved since the last Yale game weekend in 1942, The Harvard Glee Club will journey to New Haven and join with the singers of Eli in giving the annual concert of the two clubs Saturday evening, December 1, E. Barr Peterson '47, the Club's manager, revealed yesterday. He gave no details as to the exact hour and place or the procedure for obtaining tickets...
Founded as King William's School in 1696, the third oldest college in the U.S. (older: Harvard, William & Mary), St. John's for the last eight years has been the site of robust, red-haired Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr's noble experiment in education by the world's 100 Great Books. Debt-ridden by a heavy mortgage, which Barr has managed to cut a third, and reduced by war to 22 teachers and 93 students, St. John's has been uncomfortably aware for the last five years of the Academy's predacious...
Every Real Teacher Knows. The biggest cheer of the day, from a gallery of St. John's undergrads, went to President Barr. Said he: "Believe me, sir, this is not a matter of mere sentimentality. Every real teacher knows the tremendous working advantage of surroundings that incite the learner to renewed effort." He called up the ghosts of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Samuel Chase and Thomas Stone. "These men," he cried, "not only signed the Declaration of Independence. They exerted themselves . . . for the people they had helped free by founding . . . St. John's and by choosing its present...
...third day, Dodger Augie Galan got tossed for kicking dirt at Umpire Barr (fine: $50). Dixie Walker followed-for flinging his glove in the air in disgust (no fine). In the final game, Brooklyn's hotheaded Ed Stanky had his $50's worth of fun. He threw his hat high in the air after a called third strike, and Umpire Barr again did his duty as he saw it-thereby setting a new record for canning players from consecutive games...