Word: lamar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After almost three weeks of training, the Varsity boxing squad has been cut to 19 men. Coach Lamar has been putting his men through fairly simple building-up, exercises since the Yale football game; but now that he has a more manageable group, he plans to start preparations for the hard season ahead. Already a program of intensive training has commenced, and the men in the squad have a vivid impression of the arduous routine work through which they will be put. They must be in topnotch shape for their first match, against M.I.T., scheduled for next Tuesday...
...Prospects are excellent," stated Coach Lamar yesterday afternoon. "Although we have only had a regular Harvard Boxing Team for two years, there is now an abundance of good material. The men are enthusiastic, and despite the loss through graduation of Adlis, Fiechter, Nawn, and Watson, there is no doubt that we will have a good team this year...
...squad has been practicing daily from 4 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon under the direction of Coach Lamar. In addition to the squad practice, classes in boxing are held every day in the Indoor Athletic Building for all those interested. Coach Lamar announced that if enough House members come out for these workouts, House boxing teams will be organized...
...affluent enough to support a full-fledged one alone but in the university town of Chapel Hill a group of men headed by Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt had the idea of organizing a State Symphony,† one which would visit and be backed by several communities. They approached Composer Lamar Stringfield, a native Carolinian flautist teaching in the University music department. Among his teachers were Georges Barrere and Henry Hadley (conducting). The North Carolina sponsors asked Mr. Stringfield to assemble an orchestra, conduct an experimental concert at Chapel Hill...
...laid up "indefinitely" at a Hoboken pier. Of her 800 men, all but a skeleton crew were thrown out of work. International Mercantile Marine Co., half-owner of U. S. Lines, promised to try to place them on its other ships. Surprised by the company's action. Representative Ewin Lamar Davis, chair-man of the House Merchant Marine Committee, talked of an investigation of ocean mail contracts and construction loans under the Jones-White Law. What annoyed Congressman Davis was that the Leviathan should be laid up while White Star Line's Majestic continued in service. He pointed out that...