Word: fordham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gate receipts, which would have amounted to $17,467 on last season's $174,671.71. In February, when foreclosure proceedings were already well under way, it was revealed that Slip Madigan had received directly the check for $38,324.15 which New York's Fordham University gave St. Mary's after their Rams beat the Gaels 7-to-6 in Manhattan last autumn. Since Slip Madigan had been owed $21,690 from the 1934 and 1935 seasons, the Fordham check looked almost like a settlement. At the time the president of the college, Brother Albert, explained: "I paid...
Fond as Hetty was of Son Ned, she was too stingy to call in a doctor when he was injured in a childhood coasting accident and one leg eventually had to be amputated. Ned was schooled at Fordham College and in real-estate law in Manhattan and Chicago before Hetty sent him to Texas at 24 to see what he could do with himself...
Yale, Brown, Amherst, Dartmouth, Princeton, Williams, Fordham, and Columbia will be represented...
...springing back in desultory jerks. Last week's quakes were caused by upward jerks of this kind in northern Ohio. Seismologists declare that the recovery from glacial compression is not yet complete, expect it to continue but never to attain destructive violence. Father Joseph Lynch, S. J., of Fordham University guessed last week that rise & fall of the Ohio River flood may have accelerated the snap-back process. Father Joseph Sebastian Joliat, S. J., of Cleveland's John Carroll University disagreed with him, pointed out that Ohio has had seven tremors attributable to postglacial snap-backs since...
...Last week, Long Island got ready for the crucial game of New York's metropolitan season, against Manhattan this week, by nicking St. Thomas, 33-to-25. Other major games of last week: Navy 42, Army 40, at Annapolis; Harvard 37, Columbia 30, at Cambridge; Fordham 31, N. Y. U. 19, in New York...