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...painting was Emanuel Leutze's 1854 work, Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth, which since 1892 has lain rolled up in a redwood chest in the basement of Berkeley's Hearst Gymnasium for Women. Larger than its companion piece, the unforgettable 22-ft. by 12-ft. Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851), the oil portrays a bigger than life-size scene of a crucial moment. On a scorching June day in 1778, Major General Charles Lee had ordered the Continental army to retreat before the redcoats. Then, in the nick of time, Washington, accompanied by a cockaded Alexander Hamilton...
...little Roman Catholic school in New England was not even a minor-league basketball power. With only 2,100 students, Providence College played in a high school gymnasium against equally obscure teams, rarely rated a line outside the local papers. Then a touring Notre Dame squad made the mistake of paying a courtesy call, and was upset 85 to 83 on a 44-ft. shot at the buzzer. That was nine years ago, and since then nothing has been quite the same in Providence...
Born in the Ukraine's Volyn in 1897, Liberman attended a gymnasium and took a law degree at Kiev University, went on to study engineering in Kharkov. For some 15 years he worked in various factories near by, including six years as planning chief in a large farm machinery plant. After a wartime stint in a Moscow government job, Liberman went back to the Engineering Institute in Kharkov as a teacher and part-time factory consultant, earning his doctorate in economics in 1956 and the title of professor...
Their tournament, the University Squash Championship for the Foster Trophy, is now in progress for the 14th year. The tournament is not publicized; no notice of it can be found outside Hemenway Gymnasium. And yet there are 123 entrants this year, ranging from freshmen to professors...
...Harvard squash team marched to its 26th consecutive win Saturday, defeating an inexperienced Dartmouth squad, 9-0 at Hemonway Gymnasium...