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Starting from the midfield stripe, the Elephants began their drive with a 15-yard pass, Waters to Grier. Another pass, this time from Orrin Daniels to right end Dick Johnson, carried the ball to the six-yard line. Here the Bunnies received a five-yard offside penalty and set the stage for George Waters' final plunge through center to score. Daniel's pass to Johnson for the extra point failed, and the Elephants led 6 to 0 at the half...

Author: By William J. Elser, | Title: Leverett Conquers Eliot As Lowell Noses Out Funsters | 10/16/1941 | See Source »

Orme Wilson, playing in number three position, took the first point for the Varsity as he defeated Peeler in straight sets 6-14, 6-4. The graduates, however, quickly countered this by taking the next three singles. Sulloway outfought Captain Sonny Lyell 7-5, 6-3; Grier beat Russ Ellis 6-4, 6-3; and Klein overpowered Burton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NETMEN DEFEATED 7-4 BY GRADUATES | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

Among the Godkin lecturers in the past have been James Hryes, President Charles William Eliot, Jogef Rexllich, Herbert Croly, Leon Dupriex, Moorfield Story, John Grier Hibben, Alfred Zimmern, Murray Seasongood, Walter Lippmann, Heinrich Bruening, Gunnar Myrdud, and Robert Moses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARLES MERRIAM OF CHICAGO WILL GIVE GODKIN LECTURES | 11/21/1940 | See Source »

...Much quoted currently is Justice Field's remark when, grown senile at 80, he was asked by his colleagues to resign from the Supreme Court. Refusing, he was reminded that he had once served on a committee to secure the resignation of another doddering Justice, Robert Cooper Grier. "Yes," blazed the stubborn oldster, "and it was the dirtiest deed of my whole life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Mad Memories | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Past Presidents of Princeton have been so engrossed in academic pursuits that they failed to see the world tumbling down about them. Woodrow Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act, and John Grier Hibben led the movement for Repeal in New Jersey. But science tells us the climate is changing, and so it might be cooler now in Palmer Stadium than it was ten or twenty years ago, with a resultant rise in the consumption of alchohol. Or perhaps they believed, as this paper does, that drinking in a stadium, where neighboring eyes should be on the pigskin, not the bottle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE US THIS DAY | 10/20/1936 | See Source »

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