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...post-season play with Yale counterparts, only champion Winthrop could manage a win, defeating Calhoun 13-7. Eliot, however, held Johathon Edwards to a scoreless...
...size and power, the service has inevitably stirred up controversy. For one thing, some educators deplored the passing of the old essay question ("Discuss the consequences of the Dred Scott decision") in favor of the objective type ("The chief justice in the Dred Scott Case was: 1. John C. Calhoun. 2. Roger B. Taney. 3. William Lloyd Garrison, 4. Salmon P. Chase, 5. Stephen A. Douglas"). The new tests, said the critics, might be able to determine a student's superficial knowledge of a subject, but they gave no indication of whether he could think or organize his material...
...Meter High Hurdles. U.S.C.'s Jack Davis (Navy), who set a new world record in the A.A.U. meet a week earlier, was matched stride for stride by Lee Calhoun from North Carolina College, in a 0:13.8 dead heat...
Eliot's baseball team lost to Yale champion Calhoun College, 12 to 11, in a seven-inning slugfest, also at New Haven. The Elephants tied the game at 11-all in the top of the seventh, but reliefer Nick Blume was unable to prevent the winning Calhoun run in the bottom of the inning. Left fielder John Bigelow, with three hits, and catcher Bob Radner, with two hits and some fine defensive work, led the Eliot attack...
...without any courting from him. Jackson beat him, but the electoral vote was close enough to throw the election into the House of Representatives. There, with an assist from Kentucky's Henry Clay, who controlled the votes of three states, Adams was elected. (His Vice President: John C. Calhoun, who kept the job under Jackson until he resigned to become U.S. Senator from South Carolina.) For John Quincy Adams, Author Bemis says, the manner cff his election "was unsatisfactory to his pride...