Word: fordham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caps and gowns (which became academic garb when they were prescribed for medieval scholars to cover their rags, are still worn daily at such places as Oxford and Fordham University) came into fashion at U. S. commencements soon after the Civil War, Mr. Sargent reported. Today an elaborate code, to which 95 schools and colleges adhere, governs the gowns' sizes, colors, materials. Black is for liberal arts graduates, white or grey for high school, blue for normal school, pink for music, lemon for library science, silver-grey for oratory, maize for agriculture. Harvard has its own code, uses varicolored...
...graduate of Fordham University, trained for the priesthood in Rome's North American College-the alma mater of many a member of the U. S. hierarchy-Father Spellman was made an assistant to the Papal Secretary of State in 1925, thereafter became one of the Vatican's most useful U. S. prelates. He it was who rebroadcast in English the late Pope's first radio speech. He it was who, in 1931, smuggled out of Italy, by airplane, an anti-Fascist papal encyclical which was in danger of being suppressed. When the present Pope visited...
Princeton has won three and lost six games this season, dropping the last three in a row to Fordham, Navy, and Harvard and heads only Cornell in the League, while Harvard is a full game ahead of Yale in first position...
Princeton's Varsity baseballers split even in a six-game vacation campaign, and for this reason more than anything else they deserve to be regarded as a threat in the Eastern Intercollegiate pennant quest. They took their last three spring trip tilts but since then have bowed to Fordham and Navy...
...charges of rigging Bellanca Aircraft stock, Broker Meehan bought a $130,000 seat for his son William as a 21st birthday present. Last week the Exchange announced that a seat had been sold for $60,000 to Mike Meehan's youngest son, Joseph, 21, a senior at Fordham University. If the sale is approved, Joseph Meehan will become the Exchange's youngest and its only undergraduate member...