Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday, May 15, the Cornell crews, rowing a short powerful stroke, made a clean sweep at Lake Carnegie. Princeton, using a very similar stroke, also led the University crews across the line in all three events. They rowed a beautiful race and deserved to win. All credit to Cornell and Princeton. Without detracting in the least from their enviable performance, it might be advantageous to consider a few facts gleaned from the contest. The Yale crew, although crossing the line third, broke the previous course record by seven seconds. The crew rowed in perfect form. Not only Coach Spaeth...
...Crimson golfers easily defeated the newly formed Brown team 8-1 at the Wannamoisett Country Club in Providence on Saturday. Playing in a drizzling rain, the University made a clean sweep of the foursomes and lost but one of the singles. This was a close match between Captain H. S. Lake '20 and E. W. Lincoln of Brown playing in number one position, and the latter was not turned in the winner until the eighteenth hole. The other University players secured comparatively easy victories...
...vice diseases lie at the very fountain head of human life. What does it mean to the young men to get one such period of this training? In the first place, it means democracy, living together with other men; it means vocational improvement, educational improvement, and a general physical clean up and a fresh start. It seems to me that heat must mean a great deal. If there is any better plan for bringing the youth of America together for a short time and teaching them the duties of citizenship, let us have it. We call this universal military training...
Correct Attire: sweater, coat and trousers of a different material, army shoes or bedroom slippers and last year's hat. No embargo on clean linen. Any student caught wearing new clothing will be pronounced guilty of a grave breach of etiquette. YALE NEWS...
...believe the deference to clean linen, however, not only a surrender to convention unworthy of this excellent movement, but we cannot but suspect that this article must have been inserted at the instigation of the Laundry Trust. We in Cambridge have come to realize all too fully that, with our clothes, as with many other luxuries, the initial cost is insignificant compared to the upkeep...