Word: dartmouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mark's. At Harvard, the more snobbish prep-school men of his class cold-shouldered him and sometimes, he imagined, pointedly crossed the street to avoid speaking to him. (John tucked that away, too. Charley Gray, thinking back over what it had been like to go to Dartmouth from Clyde High School, hopes to send his own son to Exeter.) Even today Marquand somewhat sourly remembers that he was a "greaseball" at Harvard and was never invited to join a club. Now Harvard's Alumni Bulletin asks him for literary contributions and the college asks him for money...
...Dartmouth holds a comparative scores advantage since its edge over Navy was almost ten points more than Harvard's. But the Crimson's all-over Eastern Intercollegiate League record of 4 and 1 tops Dartmouth's 3 and 2 mark...
Before the varsity match, at 7:30 p.m., the freshmen meet the Dartmouth yearlings. The Indians will be favored, since they have nipped both Exeter and Andover, the only teams that have beaten Bill Brooks' squad all season...
...Yardlings will probably win the sprints and the dive, but Dartmouth will have a big advantage in the breast stroke and 100-yard freestyle...
Yale's Jim Fuchs should win the shot and may also wind up first in the dash. George Wade, another Yale man, took the IC4-A mile in 4:13, which will be pretty hard for anyone to beat today, although Princeton's Ronald Wittreich ought to press him. Dartmouth looks good for the cross country, with the 1948 champion, Stan Waterman, and Penn's Jeff Kirk, a member of last year's Olympic team, will probably set the pace over the hurdles...