Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down in the Southeastern corner of Ohio, a few miles off the Marietta River at the small town of Athens, stands Ohio University, a state-supported co-educational college of 5,000 students. For over 149 years Ohio has been offering a good inexpensive education to state boys and girls; because this February the school celebrates its Sesquicentennial or 150th anniversary, the directors have chosen to play Harvard in football. Since the actual observance of Founder's Day falls some time in February of 1954 a certain amount of doubt has arisen as to whether Harvard is playing Ohio...
...over 400, few College courses have an enrollment exceeding 40 students. Since the emphasis for faculty tenure at Ohio is placed on teaching rather than writing, professors spend a great deal of time with students outside the classroom in late discussions, instead of rushing off to a dark corner of some library to work on a technical paper...
...kinds of cards, four end up at the University Information Office in Weld Hall. One, the University Geographical File Card, is stashed away in a corner of the office and used only by a few inquisitive students who want to know how many Harvard men come form their home town. The other three, variously labeled University Registration Card, Information Card and University Card, are all used to provide facts for the women who answer University Information calls...
...until the seventh, the crowd seemed to feel that La Starza was doing quite well, that he might conceivably win on points if he lasted fifteen rounds. The excitement mounted as he returned to his corner after the fifth, and again after the sixth having checked the champion's terrible power for yet another round...
...effect. One punch snapped Marciano's head back, but it was as if the challenger had playfully cuffed a big old dog. At the end, Marciano was not bruised at all, and not much more tired than when the fight started. He trotted across the ring to a neutral corner after belting La Starza through the ropes...