Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reeding an informal request from University Hall, Tan Sargent, dexterous racquet-wielder of the squash team and intercollegiate champion, will not defend his title in the Intercollegiate Squash Tournament this week...
Inter-House squash competitions in the A and C Leagues reached a resounding finale yesterday afternoon as Eliot blanked Kirkland, 4-0, and Leverett conquered Winthrop, 4-1. The A League winner, to be determined at a meeting of the managers today, will cross racquets with Yale's champion inter-College squash team next Saturday...
...Irish seem a sentimental race, but they are hard underneath. Author O'Hara is rapidly qualifying himself for hard-boiled champion of the year. As straight a reporter of U. S. dialect as the late great Ring Lardner and straighter than Hemingway, he writes without bitterness, without pity. The effect is unpleasant but cruelly true to U. S. life. His first novel, Appointment in Samarra (TIME, Aug. 20), offended many a reader, excited many a critic. This collection of sketches and short stories will raise the same echo...
Boxers, wrestlers, and basketball players from the House teams will meet Dartmouth opponents at 7.30 o'clock tonight in the Indoor Athletic Building. An undefeated Lowell House quintet will face the champion team of Dartmouth intramural athletics, while the wrestlers and boxers will be chosen from the best men of all the House teams...
...champion of their cause is Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus. "Goody," he states, "is the authentic Harvard epithet, used to describe those who tidy Harvard studies from the time of the founding of the College. Its origin is in the English appellation, 'Good-wife,' and as applied to female domestics it is peculiar to Harvard among universities in this land...