Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formation of Ivy League promulgated by press of seven eastern institution...
With Yale trouncing the Tigers, who had previously triumphed over the Crimson, it is apparent that a close struggle will ensue June 22 and 23, when the two leading teams of the Eastern League tangle. By virtue of its double victory over Dartmouth Thursday which toppled the Indians from first place to third, the Varsity must be given at least a 50-50 chance of trimming the Elis, who now rest in first position with seven triumphs and two losses...
...order to win the Eastern League championship, the Varsity must win the four remaining encounters of the season. Since these contests are against the leading teams, Yale and Princeton, Crimson chances for a high place in the standings are slight following the set-backs by mediocre Pennsylvania and Princeton nines...
Dunkards, On the big Adam Blocher farm near Delphi, Ind. met 4,000 Dunkards, or Old Order German Baptist Brethren, in the 195th general meeting since their creedless, non-liturgical church was founded in eastern Pennsylvania in 1742. The women wore black bonnets, plain dresses, the men long beards and soup-bowl haircuts. Unabashedly, men obeyed St. Paul's admonition to "greet one another with a holy kiss." Only problem of import before the Dunkards last week was whether or not to allow radios in their homes, a matter which has come up every year since 1925. Though liberal...
Commissioner Mapp's successor as Chief of Staff: Commissioner John McMillan, 63, Scottish-born onetime secretary to Herbert Booth, Evangeline's brother, onetime commander of Central and Eastern territories...