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...Deacon Wheyfish, president of the Blessed to Give Brotherhood, prepared to meet any request for a financial report with: "Damn it, how do you cold-hearted and cold-faced carpers and critics know but what maybe the best training to expand the soul of man is to dig down for money that somebody will waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun With Fund-Raising | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...three-hit hard ball performance by pitcher Les Mendelsohn of Kirkland House did not stop Eliot from settling for a 5 to 5 tie with the Deacons last Wednesday. Mendelson, opposed by the Elephants' pitcher Vic Ekelberry, whiffed 13 batsmen. The Deacon soft-ballers dragged down an 11-5 win over Eliot House Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADAMS WINS, ELIOT AND KIRKLAND TIE | 4/16/1943 | See Source »

...preliminaries will start at 3 o'clock on Thursday, and the survivors will square off at the same time on Friday. Lamar is looking forward to seeing plenty of hopefuls anxiously awaiting the bell. Last year's tournament saw Kirkland finish on top and the Deacon pugilists are out to repeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEVERETT HOUSE LEADER AS SPRING SPORTS NEAR | 3/24/1943 | See Source »

Scholar from Oxford. Davis skipped quickly through Aurora's schools, went on to Indiana's Franklin College, where he picked up a nickname ("The Deacon") and every scholastic prize, got himself a Rhodes scholarship. Aurora's oldtimers, mightily impressed, still remember the day he left home for England: "He was so calm and businesslike you'd have thought he was just going up to Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth and Trouble | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...losing side Mac Broderick showed considerable skill at left guard both on the defensive and offensive. Chief handicap of the Deacon five was their man to man defense, which was not sufficiently polished to stand up against the Puritan attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURITANS AND BELLBOYS WIN | 12/9/1942 | See Source »

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