Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even the late convivial Nick Longworth, enjoyed such influence among members on both sides of the aisle in both Houses as this stubby, stubborn, pink & white billiken with the beak of an owl, eyebrows like cupid's-wings, tongue of a cowhand. He takes Capitol freshmen aside and instructs them philosophically. "Now, Scott," he said, for example, to Senator Lucas of Illinois, "first thing to do is to get other Senators' respect, if you have to fight 'em twice a day. After you get their respect you'll have their confidence. Then first thing you know...
...Bowman plan not only proposed to put Pitt on a simon-pure basis, eliminating 35 annual football scholarships for freshmen and other forms of subsidy, but it restricted coaches from newspaper writing, radio appearances, endorsements of athletic goods. Jock Sutherland stood for all these things with fairly good grace, willing enough to die for a simon-pure Pitt if the opposition was to be equally simon-pure. But when new Athletic Director Jimmy Hagan set out to fill the Pitt Stadium, toward which Jock's teams had earned $600,000, by signing up Ohio State and Minnesota, Jock Sutherland...
Rene Peroy's nimble-footed Varsity fencers downed Yale 17-10, at New Haven Saturday, as the Junior Varsity tied with the Blue, and the Freshmen, undefeated this season in Big Three competition, triumphed 15 1/2 - 11 1/2, over their opponents...
With the suddenness of a Nazi diplomatic bomb, the referendum on elections burst upon defenseless freshmen this morning. They are given absolutely no warning; they are given just as little time to think. Showing an unfortunate tendency to steamroller techniques, the plebiscite fails to present the question fairly. By its timing and by its management, it is calculated to stampede freshmen into approval of the old system...
...fact that the ballot box has been stuffed must not prevent freshmen from standing up and fighting for the abolition of a meaningless form. The present system of elections makes a farce of democracy. The duly elected representatives of the class have absolutely no function but to appoint the chairmen of the Jubilee and the Smoker--something which the Union Committee could do just as well. Hence the election resolves down to a formal recognition of the most prominent freshmen...