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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University B team won by a score of 3 to 2 at the University Club courts. This secures the position of the second team at the head of the list in class B of the Metropolitan Squash League tournament. They now have a lead of three games over their nearest competitor...
...roll to top-notch college athletes who have brought their reputations to professional sport, particularly to boxing and baseball, is large, and the list of failures among these "college guys" almost as extensive. Almost universally, these failures have been hastened by unpopularity, and generally the attitude of the customers which, after all, makes or break a professional sportsman, has been ascribed to prejudice against the college man as such...
...York World last week Critic Samuel Chotzinoff printed a list of his ten favorite operas...
...colleges and universities which form the approved list of the Association of American Universities, Randolph-Macon College (for men) at Ashland, Va., is the smallest (220 students...
Henry Ford added another generality to his large list.† Said he, in an interview in the January McClure's: "This globe has been inhabited by intelligent people millions of times, and very ancient people, I believe, were highly developed in the arts and sciences. . . . I am sure they had the automobile, the radio, the airplane-everything that we have, or its equivalent, and perhaps many things that we have yet to discover." Historians and geologists, with whom Mr. Ford has not always agreed, did not agree with him in this case...