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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visitors have met 15 opponents to date this season and have defeated nine of them including, Vermont, Pittsburg, and Dartmouth. Jackson, who may pitch against the University today, defeated the Hanover nine 2 to 1 after 11 innings of brilliant hurling. The team is made up of seven veterans, several of whom have had three years of University experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUSSELL ON MOUND AS CRIMSON NINE FACES CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY | 5/6/1922 | See Source »

...there was cause for disappointment in the score of the match, it was almost overbalanced by the brilliant playing of Captain Morris Duane '23 and K. S. Pfaffman '24. In defeating J. D. E. Jones 6-3, 7-5, Duane played tennis which at times was spectacular and which was featured by his over-head smashing and his ability to place a fast back-hand shot down either side-line. Pfaffman in beating C. H. Shaw 6-4, 6-4 played at the top of his game and displayed an effective mastery of ground strokes despite the wind which swept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROVIDENCE VETERANS DEFEAT NET-MEN 5-4 | 5/1/1922 | See Source »

...close game with neither team showing either brilliant infield play or heavy hitting, the Freshman nine defeated Pomfret yesterday afternoon 3-1 on the latter's diamond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yearlings Conquer Pomfret, 3-1 | 4/27/1922 | See Source »

...great things, they have failed in all. In short, if the plan is approved, there will be no limit placed on the number of activities in which each undergraduate may take part. This limit will be determined by a point system, and allowance will be made for the more brilliant who prove competent to handle more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATE DISCRETION | 4/26/1922 | See Source »

...inside of his victim's mind, and compels him, not only in his own phrase and vocabulary but in his own kind of mental operation, to make fun of himself. Perhaps the beet example of this deadly skill in modern literature is that of Charles Stuart Calverly, that most brilliant of Victorian pranksters, who fairly reincarnated the very personality of his victims, An able citizen he, by the way, and of university fame; he still stands as the only undergraduate who ever won the Chancelors' prizes at both Oxford and Cambridge - for Latin verse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE IN CURRENT ISSUE TRIES HAND AT PARODY | 4/4/1922 | See Source »

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