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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a two week layoff over the holidays, the College squash squad swings into action again in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets League for the last week of competition this term with an "A" match against the Newton Squash and Tennis Club this afternoon at the University Squash Courts...
Stubborn, high-strung Ted Schroeder, ex-Navy flyer and onetime U.S. singles champion (in 1942), never could sleep soundly the night before a big tennis match. Sometimes he got out of bed in disgust and ate a 4 a.m. breakfast. Last week, the hot, humid weather in Melbourne was no help. And it was no help either that he was the unexpected dark-horse choice to help Jack Kramer (TIME, Dec. 30) win the Davis Cup back from the Australians...
...complained angrily because he wasn't chosen. At 1:30 p.m. that afternoon, when Schroeder strode out before 14,500 fans in Kooyong Stadium on a slippery grass court, the pressure was on him. He was to meet Jack Bromwich, Australia's big gun, in the opening match...
Whatever Jack Kramer did after that was sure to be an anticlimax. In the second singles match of the day, he barely moved off the baseline, but easily defeated Australia's Dinny Pails in straight sets, 8-6, 6-2, 9-7. Next afternoon, when Kramer and Schroeder (twice U.S. doubles champions, in 1940-41) teamed up against Bromwich and Adrian Quist, it was Schroeder's day again. Even though he made winning shots look difficult where Kramer made them look easy, it was Schroeder who carried the load with his smashing net game. That clinched...
...significance of the ceremony is ever to match its publicity, the honorary degree should not merely attend national fame or political prominence. Presumably, the University hopes that its prestige will be extended primarily by the men it sends out into the world with its regular degrees. Special honors should be reserved for those who exemplify its ideals; whom it wishes it could claim for its own but cannot unless it be through the device of the honorary degree...