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...before the war in an all-out effort for intellectual progress. "Afterward," Bender points out, "they found out that the intellectuals, in quotes, were not really as smart as they thought and that the non-intellectuals, in quotes, were really quite valuable after all." Their experiment resulted in a lop-sided student body of "narrow intellectuals," and the school's appeal declined so much that five years ago the administration had trouble finding enough students to fill its quotas...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Myth of the 'Jock' and Intellectual Snobbery | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

Cornell is 2-0 in Ivy play this year, with lop-aided wins over Yale and Penn. Last Saturday coach Jim Miller's crew overcame a 12-3 deficit to stun Syracuse 15-12. They are odds-on favorites to repeat as Ivy king-pins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Matmen To Face Cornell In I.A.B. Tonight | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Last week, fresh from a flop series of speeches in Wisconsin, where he tried to lop away at the neck of one of his bitterest foes. Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, Jimmy Hoffa. as outwardly confident as the driver of a 14-wheel rig, swaggered into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (capacity: 18,000) for a rally billed as dramatic evidence of Teamster solidarity. Again he whaled away at Kennedy ("the handsome young man who never knew what it was to work with his hands"), as well as at Arkansas' Teamster-investigating Democratic Senator John McClellan, the Landrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Heads on Their Shoulders | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...With two lop-sided victories over Tufts and Newport Naval Station under its belt, the unbeaten J.V. eleven will seek its first Ivy win against a strong Dartmouth team at 2 p.m. this afternoon on Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbeaten J.V. Eleven Seeks First Ivy Win | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

Football came in like a lion, with 200 Freshmen going out in a feverishly excited season. But the last few games saw humiliating, lop-sided upsets for a mediocre season, enlivened by a now-familiar discussion of the merits of collegiate football in general. Barry Wood's What Price Football? came out to answer, among other arguments, the suggestion of Henry Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation that football be abandoned in favor of horseracing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of '34: First To Live in Houses Under Lowell's Plan | 6/9/1959 | See Source »

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