Word: mens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selection of applicants consideration will be given to geographical distribution. Dean Donham stated that applicants would preferably be chosen from areas where it was impossible for a man to live at home and study at a nearby university. The scholarships would thereby provide funds to assist those men who otherwise would be denied the opportunity of preparing themselves for a career by taking graduate work in business administration...
While the scholastic record of the applicant will be given great weight, those characteristics and aptitudes which are important in business will also be appraised, it was announced yesterday. Recommendations of professors and of business men for whom the applicant has worked will also be considered in the selection. Seniors in accredited colleges and all men who have been graduated from such institutions in the past two years will be eligible...
Other lettermen returning from the squad which finished fourth in the Eastern Intercollegiate League standings include Maurice Poitras, Kent and Steve Stavers, all distance men, and Berndt Lindgren, a sprinter. Outstanding Sophomore is Jack Brown, equally well at home in any free-style event, at the back, and the breast stroke. Other promising second-year men are Gunner Ohberg and Aiden Wood, sprinters, and Joe McKinley, a diver...
Unexpected occurrences seem to be in order at this particular type of meet. At a recent Alumni vs. Ulen affair the last event on the program was a 200-yard relay, consisting of four men on a team, each swimming 50 yards. The worthy Ulen had been fostering secret hopes of perhaps snatching an American record for the distance, since the event was to be swum only once during the season. Gentlemen such as Messrs. Hutter, Kendall, Barker, and McKay were then Hal's disciples--a potent enough aggregation for any sprint record...
...when the time came to toe the mark, the Alumni found, alas, that they did not have in their number four men capable of swimming two tortuous laps, Accordingly, so that no alumnus would return to his wife or graduate school or employer too fatigued for his own good, the Alumni fielded a relay team of eight men, each of whom swam a Tollicking one-lap race. Several divers and a breast stroker seem to have found their way into the line-up. Ulen's boys won the event, nevertheless, and in record time. but of course no record...