Word: dowse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dishonest practices used to be common enough in college athletics. Hired townies buttressed baseball teams, rowdy-dows won football contests for $5 per. All-around athletes who could hardly read a newspaper were put through college at the expense of the Alumni Association and given high grades in English and...
With this statement from Abraham Lincoln I would join also a passage from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to Edward Dows in 1803:
Lampy held a ballot last night and decided that after the proper ceremonies had been performed by the Ibis, the Slave would be instructed to admit five new members to the Sanctum. To the Art and Literary department the board elected Langley Carleton Keyes '24, of Winchester; Stephen Olin Dows...
The new members of the board are: Josquin Eduardo Bacardi of Newton Centre; Thomas Hawk Creighton of Albany, N. Y.; Stephen Olin Dows of Rhinebeck, N. Y.; Murray Pease of Richmond Hill, N. Y.; George Eugene Pretzfeld of White Plains, N. Y.; Elroy Sidney Webber of Springfield: Redmond Stephens Wright...
There is but one thing better than destroying an ideal, and that is making one. The assassination of the "Custer" legend is one of the best. In spite of the inconsistencies of the argument, we who dislike the sentimental and saccrime pretensions of patriotism, become overjoyed at this ruthless iconoclasm...