Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formation of the college baseball league in which Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania have accepted places has caused some comment on the independent attitude always maintained by Harvard toward associations in intercollegiate sport. Perhaps the commonest interpretation put on this detachment has read into the Harvard athletic policy a disdain of such leagues. "Old high-hat Harvard" is the phrase most often used to describe what is felt to be an independence amounting to conscious self-righteousness...
...Harvard line-up will be the same as that which faced Columbia last Saturday, with Whitbeck No. 1. Lugraham No. 2. Ward No. 3. Breese No. 4. Ware No. 5. Tower No. 6. and Trask entered in the doubles. Coach Cowles will not announce his doubles combinations until after the singles matches have been played...
...amounting to between $16,000,000 and $17,000,000 will be borne by 2,800 men, most of whom are professors at Harvard, Yale and Columbia...
Yale which has received $1,204,472 and Columbia which was given $1,132,474 are second and third respectively. During last year alone the foundation paid out a total of $1,386,000 to 838 persons...
...most spectacular match of the day was the contest between B. B. Whitbeck '29 and Bowden of Columbia. The visitor triumphed in two hard fought sets by the score of 10-8, 9-7. Captain Whitbeck was the steadier player and had the edge on Bowden in vollying and coming...