Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale to meet Cornell in the fits match for the R. O. T. C. intercollegiate polo Championship of the East at Fort Hamilton Governor's islands N. Y., this afternoon. The winner this match will meet on next Thursday the victor of the Harvard Norwich match on Tuesday. Although both Yale and Corner will enter the contest today with no handicap, Yale is favored to win as it has had slightly more experience and at the same time, has beaten the Pennsylvania Military College 6 to 4, white Cornell lost to the same team by the score...
...Administrative Board of the University has granted permission to the R. O. T. C. polo team to go to Brooklyn, New York, to take part in the intercollegiate R. O. T. C. polo championships there beginning on May 4. The tournament, which will be held at Fort Hamilton and will include teams from eight of the eastern colleges, will be under the auspices of the Second Corps Area of the United States Army and will be directly supervised by Lieutenant-General Robert Lee Bullard...
...this championship, which is the first one which has been held among the various R. O. T. C. units, elaborate preparations have been made at Fort Hamilton. A special grandstand, seating 5000, has been constructed to accommodate spectators, and already the ticket sale has been such as to assure that the cost of the tournament will be covered by the gate receipts. All of the games of the championship will be held at 4 0'clock in the afternoon...
...Alaska a United States Deputy Marshal took an Indian accused of murder by sled across country from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks. En route the marshal was stricken with appendicitis. The Indian placed his captor on the sled and mushed with him the remainding 100 miles to a hospital...
...based on religion. In newspaper, circles the remark is passed that the city which kept the secret inviolate is not New York, nor Chicago, nor Boston, nor Detroit, nor Los Angeles, nor Atlanta, nor Washington, nor Rochester, nor Syracuse, nor Milwaukee, nor San Francisco, nor Seattle, nor Fort Worth, nor Baltimore. Where there is a Hearst paper, no scandal lacks either prophet or historian...