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Bryn Mawr's smartest junior got her picture taken at the May Day hoop-rolling festival (see cut). She is 5 ft. tall, weighs 98 lb., has been in the U. S. since 1930. Her name is Vung-Yuin Ting. This year she won the Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial scholarship for the junior class's best scholastic record, the Charles S. Hinchman Memorial scholarship for being best of any Bryn Mawr girl in her major subject. Bryn Mawr's only Chinese student, Vung-Yuin Ting majors in chemistry, is one of the campus' friendliest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Year End Twinklings | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

Colonel Oscar Winslow Hoop, head of the School of Government at the University of Tulsa, has long tried to make better citizens of his students. He preached to them that: "Graft, extravagance and inefficiency are due to the indifference of the public. The machinery of politics and party organization remains in the hands of politicians only because of the negligence of voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Professor in Politics | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

Tulsa roared with mirth at the idea of such a campaign. Col. Hoop did no campaigning but his 150 students, delighted with the laboratory demonstration, held mass meetings for him, spoke at political rallies, got a professor of Spanish to stump a Mexican district. Last week Tulsans voted in their primaries. The vote for Police & Fire Commissioner: A. P. Bowles 3,637; Tom Munroe 4,680; O. W. Hoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Professor in Politics | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...this point, Don Comfort, bulky Crimson guard, found the hoop three times in a row from half way out, and followed up with a foul shot. After another gratis shot scored by Gene Merry, B. U. was frightened into freezing the ball, which they did successfully until the final gun. The Freshman cagers defeated Andover 29-14 Saturday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building. At the conclusion of the game Leavitt White of Plainfield, New Jersey, was elected captain of the 1937 squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cagers Drop Close Contest To Boston University, 42-36 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

Dolly Stark's Big Green five rolled up a high score in defeating the Crimson basketball team by a 54-20 margin in the first Eastern Intercollegiate game Saturday night at Hanover. The Hanoverians flicked the ball into the hoop from all angles and from the middle of the floor with uncanny precision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INVULNERABLE WARRIOR TEAM SWAMPS CRIMSON | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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