Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the fact that Mr. Taft had sacrificed his first vacation in 46 years in the cause of good government, was mentioned by an introductory speaker, Mr. Taft characteristically stated: "This is no sacrifice on my part. I have been waiting 50 years to attack the spoils system and champion the Merit System in this fashion. Now my doctors have refused to let me go on!" While recuperating in California, Mr. Taft is actively directing the policy of this Association...
...until the second half of its games. A decade ago Minnesota teams were feared solely for the Norse power supplied to them by the huge muscular Swedes with which they were amply staffed. The current increase in Minnesota's football prestige (the team was unofficially ranked as national champion in 1934 and 1935, is considered likely to repeat this year) is the result of the addition of brains to its football teams. The knack which recent Minnesota teams have developed of producing touchdown plays at the proper moment, seems supernatural only because it is supremely utilitarian. Uram...
Richard C. Floyd '11, president of the Club, has announced the more elaborate program yet arranged for one of these dinners. Other speakers beside the former world's heavyweight champion will be William J. Bingham 16. Director of Athletics, Thomas D. Belies, new crew coach, Richard C. Harlow, head coach of football, and James J. Gaffney, Jr. '37, captain of the football team...
...something which Princeton's enterprising Athletic Association had arranged, in place of a brass band, to entertain the customers between halves. It was an all-star mile race in which the No. 1 entrant was New Zealand's famed Jack Lovelock, Oxford medical student and Olympic champion, stopping off on his first trip home in six years...
...most notable feature of the evening was athletic rather than musical. When Rhadames (Vittorio Fullin) made his triumphal entry, who should be chained to his chariot but Jack ("Little Arthur") Johnson, Negro pugilist who once annoyed whites by being heavyweight champion of the world. Five thousand music lovers gaped and cheered while the barrel-chested black writhed in his chains and leopard skins to add artistic verisimilitude to his walk-on, nonsinging role of a captured Ethiopian general...