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Last week, as college baseball reached the homestretch of its 80th season, major-league scouts reviewed the year's outstanding players. No. 1 pitcher of the season has been Fordham's Hank Borowy, son of a New Jersey hat manufacturer, who has been defeated only once in 13 starts-and is Fordham's best batter to boot. Against Yale last week Right-hander Borowy performed in routine fashion: he struck out ten men, allowed only four hits, shut out his opponents 5-to-0 for Fordham's 16th victory of the season. In three years...
Another Tommy Corcoran (Thomas Louis Joseph Corcoran) is assistant counsel and adviser to Governor Herbert Henry Lehman of New York. Thomas L. J. is a lawyer (taught in Fordham University Law School from 1934 until last year), and a braintruster in his own right...
There the likeness ends. Tommy G is 38; Tommy L. J. is 31. Tommy G. is a bachelor; Tommy L. J. is married and the father of a 9-year-old son. Tommy G. disdains competitive athletics; Tommy L. J. once a 200-lb. guard on Fordham's football team, still loves golf, baseball, handball...
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...