Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grantland Rice, prominent sports writer who gives a radio talk every Friday night, last night featured his speech by selecting Harvard and Dartmouth as the two best-coached teams in the East. Dick Harlow of the Crimson, and Earl Blaik of the Green fall heir to the honors...
Football was not the primary standard of judgment, but all branches of sport were considered. The Crimson won its position chiefly because of the title-winning hockey team, which Tunis calls a hockey "four," the track squad that was second to Cornell in the East, the baseball nine that tied Dartmouth for second in the Ivy League, and several minor sports, especially an undefeated swimming team...
...schools from the four sections of the country were lined up, the East and the Middle West are tied for first place with three positions apiece, but the quality of the East is better, having places four, five, and six against three, nine, and ten for the Middle West...
Charles W. Duhig '29, assistant in History, introduces the topic of the Far East, S. Shepard Jones, instructor in Government, that of European Affairs, and Lloyd G. Reynolds, instructor in Economics, that of American Neutrality...
...range of scenes that would wear the shoes off a dozen reporters. Attempting to do for all New York City what his Street Scene did for one of its blocks, the novel is a sort of tabloid morality play, about on a literary level with Felix Reisenberg's East Side, West Side, leading best-seller of its kind, a number of levels below John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer. Clearly marked for commercial success, this Rice pudding is seasoned with everything that ever came out of Author Rice's cupboard: courtroom atmosphere (On Trial, Counsellor-at-Law), social...