Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kennedy will be assisted this year by Jack Medica, the former Olympic and national champion, who has been added to the Lion coaching roster...
...football season ended last week. Reviewing the season, most football students agreed that the No. 1 team of 1939 was Tennessee, undefeated, untied, unscored-on in nine games, while it rolled up a total of 205 points. Close on its cleated heels were Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College (Southwest Conference champion) and Cornell (pride of the Ivy League), both undefeated and untied, but scored-on. Powerful Southern California, undefeated but tied by Oregon, has yet to play the University of California at Los Angeles before it can clinch the Pacific Coast Conference championship, and a date at the Rose Bowl. Other...
...surprising that Phi Beta Kappa is a champion of academic freedom, because almost everyone of any intelligence at all approves of it, just in the same way he would approve of Christian morality or young love. There may be some yapping minorities that attack it, and some paper advocates who in practice sabotage it, but still the great majority of Harvard students would condone academic freedom in extravagant terms. But granted that academic freedom is a good thing, the constitution of an undergraduate committee to protect it is something else. And the summons to this constitution of an undergraduate committee...
Scarcely able to realize that he has been here so long, Laurie, who has been a billiard professional for twenty years, began to reminisce. He remembers the good old days when Willie Hoppe, world's champion billiard player for 16 years, played at the Union. In former days he used to play with all the great pros of his time--Hoppe, Schaefer, and the rest. Ben judged that the greatest Harvard player was Bert Knout '28, who averaged a run of about...
...methods of distribution, and their obvious attempts at whitewashing a murderous attack on civilians can only serve to arouse the very anti-Soviet hysteria they deplore. The latest YCL statement emphasizes the fact that their views are not taken to further the best interests of the U.S., but to champion the cause of Russia. While there is no legitimate reason for suppressing such views, there is no denying that, emotionally, they invite suppression, and for this reason make less healthy the political climate of the U.S., and may actually endanger our neutrality. By holding stubbornly to a Russia that...