Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last April the CRIMSON drew to the attention of University officials the need for changing the conduct of Language Examinations to prevent persons from satisfying the requirements by proxy. That there were breaches of the University's then unquestioning trust was established, and suggestions were made for preventing a proxy from taking the examinations in lieu of the person receiving the credit. The situation was presumably remedied when it was decreed that all those who take the examination first register at University Hall and obtain identification blanks to admit them to the test...
...Topeka. The Governor's Topeka speech drew a crowd estimated at twice the size of the one that turned out last month to hear Charles Curtis accept the Vice-Presidential nomination in his hometown. Speaker Garner joined his teammate at the State Capitol. Said he: "I've come here to show you that I wear neither horns nor hoofs though I come from Texas...
...should have been picked for the Walker Cup team. Sports writers thought he had been omitted because he once worked in a sporting-goods store. He entered the tournament with a grudge to settle. Without fanfare he polished off Walker Cupsters Seaver and McCarthy. In the semi-finals he drew Walker Cup Captain Ouimet. Francis Ouimet, now 39, had been ill before the championship, had played hard golf to get into the semifinals, and for the first 18 holes of his match, he out-golfed Johnny Goodman. In the afternoon Ouimet was obviously worn out, and Goodman took the match...
...resources. Many of these offices, such as those of "two guards in the (Adams House) Gold Room," and "one man . . . to carry the sick list twice a day to the various House Masters," are pretty palpably cooked up, a testimony to the broadminded generosity of the gentlemen who drew up the report. Others are of a more permanent and useful nature, though no better calculated to the purpose of taking a little hard-given money out of the pocket of the University for the benefit of the student...
...wheel sat a stately, dignified man, gray but hale, taking obvious delight in the throbbing power he controlled. The needle on the swank dial crept from left to right, from sixty to seventy, perhaps toward that exhilarating eighty. It was then fate intervened, and when the big Buick drew to a stop by the kerb the policeman's scathing tongue had respect for neither the distinguished lawyer or famed administrator that were one in the stately, dignified...