Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter recently published in the New York Tribune, L. N. Kaplan, manager of the newly-formed organization, points out that merely because Harvard has not been able thus far this year to secure competition for its brain team, is no basis on which to argue that learning is held in disrespect in the colleges...
Howard Theodore Wenner '30, of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, will captain the University basketball team during its 1929-30 season as a result of an election held yesterday by the letter men of this year's team...
Wenner prepared at Catasauqua High School where he was a member of the basketball team. He captained his Freshman team at Harvard and in his first year on the University team he substituted for J. W. Baldwin '28 at forward and earned his letter by playing in the Yale game. This season he was regular left forward on the quintet and took part in every game played, being high scorer in several of these...
Last year the team lost practically all its letter men by graduation, forcing Coach Wachter to build up an entirely new five this winter. This season Captain D. J. O'Connell '29 is the only one to go. Coach Wachter will have two Junior and four Sophomore letter men to work with when the 1929-30 season opens. The other Junior returning besides Wenner is S. C. Burns '30, center, who distinguished himself in the Yale game by scoring 14 points and keeping the Crimson within striking distance of the Blue at all times. The Sophomores who will return...
...this request even the most friendly could not respond, for while the letter was on its way, the choleric, anti-U.S. weekly Britannia (TIME, Nov. 5) had failed under the extravagant editorship of Novelist Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau and was about to lose its identity in a merger with England's popular Eve, according to statements issued by wealthy, wiry William Harrison, owner of both publications and some 25 other periodicals...