Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listening to Headmaster Alexander Florian talk of Greenslade's children. The school allowed no punishment of a child. Most of them were from impoverished homes, said the headmaster, and "a child who has slept all night in a stuffy, overcrowded room, and then breakfasts on a cup of weak tea and a piece of bread, can hardly be expected to show a sharp, sustained interest in the abstractions of arithmetic and the unrelated niceties of correct spelling." Recalls Braithwaite: "My own experiences . . . invaded my thoughts, reminding me that these children were white, and as far as I was concerned...
...country Saturday, as it triumphed over a strong but outclassed Pennsylvania crew. The Penn freshmen and junior varsity dominated the wind-swept Annapolis race course, but the Crimson heavyweights salvaged the afternoon by defeating Penn, Navy, and Rutgers in the final race to carry off the Adams Cup for the fourth straight year...
Defense of the Adams Cup provides the first real competition for the heavyweight squad. Competition it will be, because a loss last weekend to Yale by a single second...
...Goldwaith Cup regatta at Princeton, offers a rematch between Princeton lightweights and an Eli crew which edged out the Tiger eight by a bare three feet in a race last weekend. No doubt the Yale boat is considerably stronger now than earlier in the season when it succumbed to Dartmouth. Nevertheless, the formidable Crimson victory over the Indians last Saturday offers indication of another win for Laury Coolidge's undefeated varsity...
...Smithies trooped to Cambridge yesterday to prove that talks of merger with Radcliffe are "just pure bunk." Here to prove their boating prowess, the oaresses, dividing their favors between two groups of four Winthrop men, raced on the Charles. "Athletic integration," not academic, proved the keynote of the "Togetherness Cup" contest...