Word: laval
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Louis Alexandré Taschereau is of a family superpotent in Quebec politics. His father, the Hon. Jean Thomas Taschereau, was a judge of the supreme court. Still more important was his uncle, the late great Elzear Alexandré Taschereau, dour-faced Archbishop of Quebec, first Canadian Cardinal, a founder of Laval University and for over 50 years an immense power in the life of the province. Premier Louis, cardinal's nephew, was destined from the first for a public career. Premier since 1920, he it was who framed the widely discussed, widely imitated (by other Canadian provinces) Quebec liquor law. Though...
Bates, Bowdoin, Carleton, Chicago, Cornell University, Dalhousie, Emory, Illinois, Laval, McGill, Marquette, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ottawa, Queen's, Reed, Rochester, University of Saskatchewan, Toronto, Trinity, Tufts, Tulane, United States Military Academy, University of Virginia, College of Wooster, Wesleyan, Yale...
...Billy Laval, coach of the South Carolina University football team is having his halfbacks literally live with footballs in the hope that the costly fumbles that marred the "Gamecocks" contest with Clemson last week may not occur again. His ball carriers are carrying the ball to class, to meals, and to bed this week, so that they may become thoroughly familiar with its ovoid shape...
When at Harvard's last mass meeting almost two years ago, one of the greatest ends ever to wear the Crimson described his Utopian ideal of Harvard undergraduates studying with a football in their hands, he forgot that the idea was not new. Coach Laval also probably did not realize that the fundamental idea of his cure for fumbling has long been in practice right here in Cambridge. For years, Harvard students have been juggling books and fountain pens, as they made their increasingly procarious way about the streets radiating from Harvard Square. Of course as Mr. Laval will...
...Best known Canadian institutions are the Universities - Toronto, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Ottawa, McGill, Queen's, Trinity, Victoria, Laval, Dalhousie. † Approximately 200 U. S. magazines and 30 newspapers are sold regularly in Canada. For U. S. magazines Canada spends some $15,000,000 yearly; for British magazines, some...