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...even oncourage boys to finish their college careers," Collins continued. "There's a young follow named Sayles on our ball club new who played on the Olympic nine as a Freshman. We agreed to help defray his college expenses, but he wanted to quit school right away. The coach at Oregon, that's where he was playing, came to our scout out there, all upset, and we influenced the boy to take another year at least...
...British press when he visited London as "The Most Perfectly Brought Up Boy In The World." Aged four he received a pretty Yorkshire widow, Mrs. Ina Xaylor. as his nurse-governess. She remained his governess until he was 15 and the Egyptian Parliament voted $80,000 to defray the expenses of himself and suite during the Crown Prince's first year of education in England. With Egyptian guards bristling all over the place, Farouk took up country residence at Kenry House, Kingston Hill, soon was greatly liked for his democratic ways by local English tradespeople who still speak...
While the week's biggest crowd helped defray mortgage interest of $200,000 on its huge stadium, Pitt, beaten fortnight ago by little Duquesne, recovered to give Notre Dame its worst defeat since 1925- 26-to-0. Spearhead of the Pitt attack, and author of one Pitt touchdown was the youngest player on the field, Marshall ("Biggie") Goldberg, stocky sophomore who, next morning, celebrated his 18th birthday by reading that the country's ablest football writers had picked him as a prospect for the 1936 All-America...
...sale of 100,000 one-half dollar coins specially coined to commemorate the opening of the new bridge. I am to be permitted to purchase a limited number of these coins at the very special price of $1.65 each, the premiums on the coins to be used to defray part of the expenses of the celebration...
...Student Council guarantees the financial success of all Freshman activities, such as dances, the Red Book, etc. A donation is made of over $300 to defray expenses of the annual Freshman smoker...