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Word: clubmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vociferous backing of the Harkness Hoot, the two-degree system has attracted many prominent educators. If a more intensive and expensive curriculum is to be established both in courses and tutorial work, for the scholar nucleus; a less-arduous life might well be planned for budding lawyers, doctors, businessmen, clubmen, football coaches, and future unemployed who constitute the solid background of Harvard life and finances. The term "two-degree system" would mean more than two varieties of parchment. Its general operation would liberate the picked scholar from the toils of the more elementary courses, from the stifling contacts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIVIDE ET IMPERA | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...will perhaps be forgiven for reemphasizing the respective suggested cures; the Dean--abolition of the reading period, the CRIMSON--futility. In either instance a hint that the solution might long ago have been effected by shifting emphasis away from examinations would have plucked leaves from the victors wreath. The clubmen and the future revenues of Harvard are still safe. (Name withheld by request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widow, Weep For Me | 5/4/1933 | See Source »

...that in which G. H. Hartford, II, '34 barely eked a win from his persistent opponent, Guilford Stewart, by his accuracy in placing shots out of his reach, and then finally breaking down the latter's resistance. S. E. Davenport, III, '34 scored the only other win from the Clubmen in his five game set with R. B. Merriman, Jr. '27. He finally tired the latter out by continually driving the ball down the side walls. Coach Harry Cowles was on the whole well pleased with the showing of his men, since they were playing in strange courts against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY SQUASH TEAM TRAVELS TO MEET HOPE CLUBMEN IN PROVIDENCE | 12/17/1932 | See Source »

...court were brought back to Paris in the fourgons [supply wagons] of the Allied armies in 1815 has a regime existed in any major European country so cordially detested by the mass of the people it claims to rule as the clique of generals, Junkers [landed proprietors] and aristocratic clubmen governing the Reich today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fine People | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...hours before the Princeton Triangle Club show, Spanish Blades, was scheduled to begin in Montclair. N.J., the truck containing costumes and make-up was stolen, presumably by belligerents in a truckmen's feud. On the insistence of an audience which refused to be put off, the clubmen went on with their show, scored a smashing hit with their trousered chorus "girls," stubble-chinned "leading ladies," undisguised blond "Spaniards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 28, 1931 | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

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