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...Pennsylvania, with four legs of the cup to its credit, which is also Cornell's record, will fight to gain permanent possession of the trophy. Penn's strength lies in the track events. Lippincott and Patterson will be the point winners in the dashes, while Meredith, Madeira and McCurdy loom up as the favorites in the half, mile, and two mile runs respectively. Cornell, on the other hand, has no men sure of first places, and is depending on her so called second-string men to bring a victory. Michigan looms up as another possible contender. Bond has made exceedingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERCOLLEGIATES A PUZZLE | 5/26/1914 | See Source »

Only with the lapse of time and the near approach of June, 1917, will the present Freshman class realize the significance of their dinner to be held tonight. By that time the event will loom up as a unique and irreplaceable occasion. The time necessary for a feeling of class unity to become vivid has not yet elapsed and sheer lack of stimulus may well account for many men neglecting the dinner. But the upper classes know that the Freshman Dinner is one of the last things they would omit from the varied experiences of their college career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MOMENTOUS OCCASION. | 3/31/1914 | See Source »

...personalities, and their abilities to be interesting apart from their regular work. And in the second place, the topic and the special work which Professor Perry has done in connection with Lincoln's life ought to bring out a good audience. Lincoln is one of those men whose lives loom larger as the perspective forms about them. And in such an essentially American University there should be enough men desirous of knowing Lincoln better to crowd the Living Room to the doors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LECTURE BY PROF. PERRY. | 2/18/1913 | See Source »

...hoped that undergraduates, and particularly men from the two lower classes, will seriously consider whether they will devote themselves to acquiring the varied spoils of College life which loom so large at first only to be lost sight of in the democratic Senior year, or will strive for an honor, the appreciation of which grows slowly but lasts for all time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBJECT OF PHI BETA KAPPA | 10/10/1912 | See Source »

...begin until the middle and stops long before the end. Otherwise it is up to the usual standard. The poem called "The Grain Elevators at Duluth" by H. B. Sheahan '09 is distinguished mainly by the inaptitude of the last stanza and the vision of wheatmills that both "loom" and are "outlined...

Author: By H. M. Kallen ., | Title: Current Illustrated Review | 2/23/1910 | See Source »

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