Word: followance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officially, the Washington v. California race starts the U. S. rowing season. Actually, it often makes more highly-publicized regattas that follow an anticlimax. Since 1921, with two exceptions, Washington or California has been either first or second in every Poughkeepsie regatta, against the best competition in the U. S. California crews won the Olympic championship in 1928 and 1932 but this year Washington's Coach Al Ulbrickson felt sure of eight sophomores he had retained as a unit from last year's powerful freshman boat. Said he, before the boats lined up last week on Oakland Estuary...
That situation Premier Flandin handled, as well as he could, by sending France's Minister of Commerce Paul Marchandeau to Brussels this week. There M. Marchandeau will tell Belgian Premier Paul van Zeeland that France, unable to permit Belgium to flood her with goods at devaluation prices, must follow Great Britain in upping tariffs against Belgium. In the French Chamber, despite a croak from No. 1 French Socialist Leon Blum, the Deputies of France voted rousing gold standard confidence in the Flandin Government...
When the race was over last week, the lighter Cambridge crew paddled nonchalantly to their boathouse. It took Oxford's portly, tired oarsmen ten minutes to find strength enough to follow. Said G. M. Nickals, an Oxford Blue in the winning boat of 1923: "They reverted to all the faults which have been the bane of Oxford rowing for ten years...
...astonishing amount of financial news. For several years most of the news concerned the strenuous efforts of Archie Moulton Andrews, Hupp's biggest stockholder, to oust the old management. By last autumn Mr. Andrews was safely intrenched in the Hupp offices as board chairman, but peace failed to follow. Just as strenuous efforts were promptly launched to oust Mr. Andrews. And by last week the shrewd, breezy archpromoter, who does most of his work in a labyrinth of lawsuits, was up to his ears in trouble...
...figures by classes follow: Per Cent on Dean's List 1934-35 1933-34 Juniors 23.3 21.4 Sophomores 19.0 17.4 New Freshmen 15.7 14.9 Per Cent Unsatisfactory 1934-35 1933-34 Juniors 7.7 7.5 Sophomores 12.9 13.1 New Freshmen...