Word: haverford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haverford, Pa., spectators watching the Intercollegiate Tennis Championship last week did not have to be told who the topnotchers were. Most of them had long been familiar to tennis fans. Seeded No. 1 was 22-year-old Don McNeill of Kenyon College, who had twice defeated Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, had won the U. S. indoor tennis championship two years ago, had trounced U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in the final of the French hard-court championship at Paris last year, and last fortnight, at Chicago, had beaten Bobby Riggs and Frank Parker (top and second-ranking...
...will be held at Brown University, Providence, R. I., next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Those entering will be Langdon Gilkey, Dave Burt, John Palfrey, and Chet Legg or John Stewart. Winners of this tournament will qualify for the National intercollegiates, which will be played at the Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa., on June...
Gove Hambidge, head research writer in the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and a popularizer of technical subjects, has a son at Haverford College and a daughter in high school. Mr. Hambidge has lately given much thought to U. S. Education. Last week he published a book on the subject, in the form of letters of advice to his son (New Aims in Education-Whittlesey House-$2). Neither flashy nor profound, Mr. Hambidge's book said in good plain English what many another parent thinks is wrong with U. S. schools...
...could give up such a job, at the onset of a Presidential campaign, was a mystery to his newspaper colleagues. His explanation: "Personally I have the feeling that I have been spending intellectual capital and discovering that it is difficult to replace. So, in a curious way, Haverford's need is my opportunity...
...football games played last year, Haverford won none...