Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Columbus discovered America; Hudson discovered New York; Benjamin Franklin discovered the spark That Edison discovered would light...
Joesting, Minnesota fullback, did his best, but it soon became evident that Benjamin Friedman of Michigan knew how to take a Joest. He took him on his back, side, flanks, and kept on running. Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth have failed this season to do what Abbiatti, a fullback from New Hampshire, did to Brown, but after his touchdown the Iron Men started. Score: Brown, 40; New Hampshire, 12. Iowa has its Kutsch but Northwestern has its Baker, Lewis and Gustafson, so the co-educational institution on the shores of Lake Michigan finished its first undefeated Big Ten season...
...always been the feeling, a more or less indefinite one it is true, of the Student Vagabond, that Benjamin Franklin is one of our over-rated historical characters. Perhaps this feeling is due more than anything else to the shock which he experienced when he realized that the story of Franklin entering Philadelphia eating a roll and with another under his arm,--a story told him when a small child and constituting his only knowledge of the statesman--was, as Mark Twain points out, not such a wonderful thing after all. Anyone could have done...
...Lind '29, will be the violin soloist of the evening, while Benjamin Brewster '27 will play the accordion and C. S. Henderson '28, will entertain as usual at the plane. K. A. Perry '28 will vocalize and Ogden Goolet '29 will perform in the specialty acts...
Five lettermen remain from last year's aggrecation J. N. Barbee Jr. '28, W. Van A. Coombs '27, Kenneth Dorn '27, J. D. Leekley '27, and Captain J. S. Malick '27. The ineligibility of S. C. Burns '29 and Benjamin Thackaberry '29, two of the mainstays of last year's Freshman quintet, will hurt the chances of success this year, and faced with a dearth of experienced substitutes, Coach Wachter's prospects are rather gloomy...