Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past all sorts of people have found the Current Affairs Test engaging-as a challenge to their knowledge of the news, and as a contest in which it is not easy to get a perfect score. Once, the warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N.Y., gave the test to 200 of his brightest inmates under the most durable of honor systems. They averaged, according to the warden, 86 per cent. That's not bad, as the millions of TIME readers, students, and others who have taken the tests, can testify...
Each undergraduate is entitled to one season seat in the area allotted his house, season seat in the area allotted his house, but additional pairings for individual games may be obtained the week before the contest by turning in the ticket to the H.A.A. which will furnish the requested number of seats in another section. The H.A.A. emphasizes the point that the exchange seats will not be quite as favorable as those in the regular undergraduate sections. Ticket sales begin today in the H.A.A. office beneath the Freshman Union...
...center slot Charlie Glynn, six-foot ex-Air Corpsman, is holding a slight edge over Jack Fisher of the ubiquitious Fisher brothers. Both of them have looked good in the early drills, and both will see action in the Connecticut contest--and all others. Left guard is being held down by Nick Rodis, another six-footer. Rodis hails from Nashua, New Hampshire, where he shone in three sports, and he comes to Cambridge with three years of football on service teams behind him. Backing up the leaders in that center of the line are a host of capable replacements, including...
...Globe contest was lrst announced last Spring, but students, who apply this October will be judged equally with those who applied in the Spring. Applications are to be made through submission of coupons that will be printed in the Sunday editions of the Globe October 6 and 13. The fellowships awards which are worth $1000 apiece, will be announced this Fall and Winter, and the winning students will receive the funds upon completion of their 1946-47 academic year...
...almost entirely NROTC squad lost only one regular season encounter, to a top-notch Holy Cross team, and then succumbed to powerful N.Y.U. and Ohio State in the National Intercollegiate contest...