Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead then changed hands seven times in five minutes, as each team scored when it got the ball. With M.I.T. ahead, 53-50, the Crimson finally took hold, and began clearing both backboards with regularity, to grab an insurmountable lead...
...reasons for Jordan's dismissal were not disclosed yesterday, but members of the Faculty had said earlier that he was objected to for being a "poor teacher," and they alleged particularly a failure to hold the confidence of players and other students. Incidents involving criticism of officials and of University admissions policies were also understood to be factors in the decision...
Alumni traditionally hold banquet meetings, to which they invite all the promising, prospective Harvardmen. Lloyd Jordan felt bluntly that money many of these should promise to play ball if they wanted to be prospective Harvardmen. He was wrong. If Harvard is an educational institution, it must make education its only aim; football, as University Hall has stated it, is a complement to education because, as everyone knows, "A healthy body means a healthy mind." But to say, "Charlie, my boy, you'll have time for ball and studies, too," is to say that football to some people can be just...
...American and Filipino soldiers died. In the next 20 days, at Camp O'Donnell, 23,000 more died. Stewart's chronicle becomes a saga of almost miraculous survival in the face of starvation, brutality and the terrors of the mind. The high point of horror: the fetid hold of a Japanese transport where thirst-crazed prisoners, so tightly packed that they had to stand on their own dead, claw each other to death for a drink of blood...
...Committee met to recommend the action about Dec. 20, and the story broke in the Boston Herald last Wednesday. While no official statement was given explaining the reasons for asking Jordan's dismissal, committee members have explained that he was felt to be a "poor teacher," who did not hold the confidence of players and other students...