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Harold Laski attended Manchester Grammar School, performed brilliantly in Latin and Greek, then went up to Oxford to take a First Class Honors degree in modern history. From Oxford, Laski went as a lecturer to McGill University in Montreal, thence to Harvard, where he became fast friends with Felix Frankfurter and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, among others. At Harvard, Laski inveighed tirelessly against the state, just as his "Manchester-school" predecessors had before him. Sometimes he would say: "All governments are bloody. The anarchists are right...
...Woodfin Grady, Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus) Harris, and Frank (Mighty Lak a Rose) Stanton. Under the late Clark Howell Sr., it also fought the Ku Klux Klan and won a Pulitzer Prize (1931) for exposing municipal graft. But the present Clark Howell and his liberal but erratic Editor Ralph McGill have let Cox & Co. take the play away. Example: while the Constitution merely deplored Herman Talmadge, the Journal campaigned aggressively against him, and Reporter George Goodwin won a Pulitzer in 1948 by exposing vote-rigging for Talmadge. The 67-year-old Journal ("Covers Dixie Like the Dew") also regularly beats...
Before the war the Quadrangular League, now the Pentagonal, was involved in a similar arrangement as a member of the International League which included the Canadian League of Montreal, Queens, Toronto, and McGill. Each team played two games below the border and one above. This league collapsed because of the consistent superiority of the Canadians and travel complications...
Henry Foster, rated number two in the tournament behind Bill Smith of Amherst, won his match in five games, breaking at 16-16 tie to defeat Dean Carpenter of Princeton. The nine colleges represented are: Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Williams, Wesleyan, Army, Navy, Toronto, McGill, Fordham, and Harvard...
...intercollegiate competition, the varsity has lost only to Williams, while beating Dartmouth, McGill, MIT, Amherst, and Trinity. On Tuesday, the Crimson won a Metropolitan A League engagement which is indicative of its strength since these matches are tougher than many college matches...