Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prospects for a successful defense of their Eastern Intercollegiate baseball title gained last spring are rather doubtful for Coach Jeff Tesreau's Dartmouth Indians despite the fact that Hal (Big Chief) Wonson, an eight-game winner in the League last year, heads a well-balanced veteran pitching corps backed up by a generous sprinkling of promising Sophomores...
...Into eight conference rooms at Littauer Center on one of the first days of spring crowded some ten score students. Pads and pencil, which armed every pretty maiden and a few others, who were not so pretty as their painted political ideas, dispelled all conservative fears that a contest of postoffice or "goldfish gobbling" was about to begin. For almost six hours, Littauer was converted into a gigantic safety valve for youth and all its fears and ideas. Smoke-filled rooms, hushed giggles, and overflowing ash trays gave signs through the night that the conference was still there...
...which are to be made inter-House sports will probably die out because of an insufficient number of players in each House to make up a team. For example lacrosse drew only 60 men at the beginning of the year, enough for a Varsity team, but not enough for eight House teams (there being 10 men to a team). The situation in soccer, fencing, wrestling, and rugby is very similar...
Smart stickwork by Lupien started the Crimson on their eight run rally in the tenth. Both infield and outfield were playing deep when Lupe dropped a bunt and beat it out. Hoye's sacrifice was thrown into centerfield as Desmond, Columbia backstop, vainly attempted to nip the traveling Lupien at second. Harvard's next gesture was a bunt by Tully, which pitcher Cerny fielded, only to find Stabl's fleet first-sacker already at third...
With resolutions endorsing specific internal and foreign policies in accord with the New Deal, the reports by eight committees on education, social security, health, agriculture, civil liberties, foreign policy were voted on by a body relief, labor and the Wagner Act, and foreign policy were voted on by a body varying from 75 to 200 people in Littaner Center...