Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life member of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University, has willed a tithe (one-tenth) of his estate, after death, to Columbia and last week urged, almost demanded that other alumni do the same. Raze. "The women's colleges of this university should be leveled to the ground." So voted the Oxford Union, debating society, last week, 223 to 198. While Phi Beta Kappa men were packing their bags to go to William & Mary where, this week, they celebrate the 150th anniversary of their founding; while majestic little Dr. Henry van Dyke was writing, in Princeton, the speech...
There was a distinct Crimson tinge to yesterday's football game between Battery A and the First Corps of Cadets on Technology Field, Cambridge. At left half-back on the Battery A eleven was Madison Sayles '27, consistent ground-gainer and defensive back on the University team this fall. At left tackle was Brainard Taylor '26, another graduate of the Soldiers Field gridiron, who was on the University squad for two years...
Battery A won the game, 20 to 0, largely due to the stellar line-plunging of Sayles, who was the outstanding player on the field, and who did nearly all the ground-gaining for his team...
Meeting on neutral ground at the Hotel Taft in New Haven last Saturday, L. F. Daley '27, president of the Student Council, and Joseph Prendergast, president of the Senior Council of Princeton University, conferred regarding a possible move to heal the breach between the University and Princeton...
...deepening darkness Captain Bunnell caught a punt on Yale's 30-yard line and fore down the field. A Crimson tackler almost upset him, but he dodged, and dodged again, and reached the Harvard 29-yard line before Chauncey downed him. Losing ground on the next play, the Blue quarterback fell back to the 41-yard mark, and arched a beautiful drop-kick for the final score. This was superfluous, but the field goal sharpshooter all powerful in the days of Brickley and of plan man, had outdone the best efforts...