Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When in college, Mr. Bingham captained the University track team in his Senior year. His event was the half mile in which he was one of the most brilliant and consistent runners the Crimson has ever had. In 1916 he was a member of the championship quartet which captured the intercollegiate relay at the Pennsylvania Carnival...
Individual honors were finally won by J. Simpson Dean of Princeton, who defeated Jesse Sweets of Yale on the 34th hole after a brilliant match...
...rich vein of victory, however, was immediately followed by a losing streak. Penn State piled up six runs in the ninth, thereby breaking the 3-3 tie that Yale had been able to maintain, chiefly through the brilliant fielding of Aldrich and Hickey, and winning 9-3. The following game, on May 14, was also a defeat, the second administered to Yale by Holy Cross. Tunney was again effective against the Blue, allowing them only two hits, both by Crane. Some snappy work on the bases, however, gained Yale two runs, while a corresponding sleepiness on the part...
Harry Nadell '22 of Paterson, N. J., has been awarded the Shaw Travelling Fellowship at the University, given each year to enable a man graduating from the college to travel abroad. Nadell, who has done brilliant work in history, government, and economics, his special field being public finance, is completing his college work in three years...
...unanimous decision of university authorities a lumber jack forty-two years of age--an engineering student in the University of Washington whose education until a year ago was confined to the seventh grade of an Irish grammar school--was termed one of the twenty-five most brilliant minds in the United States. This honor was conferred upon him as a result of making a perfect score in the army "alpha" intelligence test. He required only thirteen of the seventeen minutes allowed to complete the test, a feat which was une ualed by any of the 3,000,000 service...