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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explaining the action, Paul Olum '40, First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, declared that the honor society's job was "the maintenance of intellectual standards," and linked the local chapter's action with the national organization's current drive for an "intellectual defence fund...
...that Lord Halifax, while he may approve world union in principle, will oppose these very changes with all his power. Everything he and his party stand for--"reality," empire, and British hegemony--will have to be swept aside if world union is to come. It will be a tremendous job, but if the men who are trying it now are wiser and more far-sighted than those in the past, they will come just that much closer to it. They must certainly be wise enough to profit by what Lord Halifax's speech shows so obviously, that this...
...plugger Hewitt can hold the fort against studies, Lonnie Stowell (now a distance man), and Bob White, who will be recovered from the effects of an appendectomy soon, he'll be doing a grand job. Big Jim Curwen, an All-American 100 man two years ago, is now working out and will be trying to bring his four-lap efforts down to the 53's again. A great deal of laboratory work is the biggest obstacle to Jim's breaking into the 52-second class again, so until the season is well under way, he must be regarded...
...nosed out Lou Young, Dacey's running mate, by only one vote. Yale might have been voted a fifth place in the person of center Bill Stack, but since he was unable to play against Harvard. Penn's Frick gets the nod over Alger of Princeton for the pivot job...
From April to October each year Sandburg made no engagements; he sat at his cracker box and wrestled with a bigger job than any army commander ever faced. Fifty years old when he started it, he could summon to his aid a lifetime of singularly useful experience: as a shock-headed Swedish kid in Galesburg, Ill. in the '80s (his father was an immigrant blacksmith) listening to talk of Lincoln and the Civil War; as a harvest hand, a migrant worker, a volunteer in the Spanish-American War; as a young reporter in Milwaukee and Chicago getting ten years...