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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual) had amassed 172 points and was the winner. C. H. Corless, Abe's English compatriot, was second with 161 points. Rugger Bill Melhorn of Chicago was third with 160 points. Other scores: Walter Hagen 148 points, Archie Compston 134, Joe Kirkwood 128. "Par" in points was 228. Comparison of the medal (stroke) scores shed but little light on the relative merits of "guid auld" and "scientific" golf. Mitchell equaled the course record of 69; Melhorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Target Golf | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...Miraculous") Butler of Columbia University, in a Commencement oration delivered last fortnight: "It has been my ambition to have it said in Europe as well as in this country that on Morningside Heights there has been brought together a group of scholars, trained investigators, scientists, teachers and personalities without comparison in the civilized world. Gentlemen that has been the done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

Three cheers for Lampy! Many complaints have been heard from all quarters concerning the decadence of Lampy and his interiority in comparison with other college papers of the same type. But the fertile brain of the editors has at last, brought to light a new source of humor from which no doubt they will be able to draw a wealth of new and original jokes, and will thus relieve the present monotony of reading jokes which range anywhere from the pre-historic to "The Best Joke I Ever Heard" in the last Boston American. The idealism and breadth of vision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampy Rebuked | 6/17/1926 | See Source »

...McCrory Stores Corp. and S. H. Kress & Co. all together had available for dividends $43,352,240, a gain of $7,435,759-20.7%-over the $35,916,481 which their net earnings were in 1924. (1924 earnings were only $580,372-1.5%-greater than those of 1923.) Comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dime Store Profits | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...Brown Freshmen furnish the only basis of comparison between the two teams. The Eli scrubs downed the Brown Cubs, 6 to 3, white the University substitutes lost to the Providence aggregation, 3 to 1. Kenn will probably start on the mound for the Blue, while Coach Parent will make his mound selection from among Gates, Ellis, and Nash

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY NINE SEEKS VENGEANCE IN JERSEY JUNGLE | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

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