Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the three Knights in T. S. Eliot's play who defend their crime while Becket lies bleeding on the steps of the altar, three college presidents in last Thursday's issue of the Cornell "Daily Sun" came forward to defend the censorship of college publications. They too spoke calmly and rationally. There was none of the fascist in their words; their arguments were built on the homely, utilitarian premises of present-day America. And the reader paused to re-examine those premises...
Columbia, which won the title for the first time last year with 34 5-14 points, will defend. Princeton, Manhattan, Dartmouth, Syracuse, Yale, Rhode Island, Harvard, and N.Y.U. finished in that order behind the Columbians...
...generation or more the Hungarians have had no peers at the game of table tennis. When the Dowager Lady Swaythling put a cup into international team competition in 1927, the Hungarians proceeded to win it and defend it with monotonous regularity...
...Faith Baldwin's most involved accounts of the complications that can befall a simple family. In the ultimate trial, to which the whole picture leads up, we see a Harvard Freshman tensely watching his mother (Frieda Inescort), a beautiful barrister with whom he is hopelessly in love, defend his step-mother (Heather Angel) for the murder of their former husband, while the District Attorney (Walter Abel) does his best to outwit the attorney for the defense, with whom he, too, is hopelessly in love...
Whether Harvard will successfully defend their second place league position of last season will probably be decided during the trip to Canada. For the Crimson still appear to be the class of the American contenders, despite their small margin of victory against Princeton. Unpredictable Yale, however, recently provided a paradox by losing to weak Montreal and holding powerful McGill the very next night to Red Birds smallest margin of victory...