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...disqualified him to teach at C. C. N. Y. (TIME, April 8), U. S. men of learning deplored the New World's inhospitality to one of the world's original minds. Last week a small, eccentric art school, the Barnes Foundation, in Philadelphia's suburban Merion, gave him a five-year appointment to lecture on the history of culture...
When the field narrowed down to the semi-finalists-after two days of postponement because of rain-no one in the Merion Cricket Club stands was surprised at the survivors: McNeill, Hunt, Guernsey and Bill Talbert, University of Cincinnati up-&-comer, who had ousted Ted Schroeder in the quarterfinals. Tennis tournaments usually run truer to form than golf tournaments. Last week's was no exception. In the semifinals, Hunt put out Guernsey, McNeill put out Talbert. And in the final, sharpshooting, canny McNeill, seeded No. 1, subdued Hunt in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1. Trooping...
...England Intercollegiates, which will be held at Brown University, Providence, R. I., next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Those entering will be Langdon Gilkey, Dave Burt, John Palfrey, and Chet Legg or John Stewart. Winners of this tournament will qualify for the National intercollegiates, which will be played at the Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa., on June...
Tallest is Bill Hook, a 6 foot, 3 inch center from Lower Merion High. Then there is Henry Solaliac, star of last year's freshman quintet, a 6 foot, 2 inch athlete with plenty of experience. Sid Levinson, from Rochester, Walter Reinhard, formerly of Weequahic High, Newark; and John Townsend, of Friends Central, Philadelphia, also are being counted on to lift the Quaker court fortunes. There are, as well, Gene Davis, the sophomore foot-baller; Ray Frick, football captain-elect: Johnny Dutcher, who also played football; Eugene Weisberg and George Dietrick. Reserves from the 1939 team include Tony Caputo...
...Merion courts last week saw no such titanic struggle as the never-to-be-forgotten Brookes-McLoughlin match of 1914, in which the American beat the Australian 17-15 in the first set. What last week's matches lacked in suspense, however, they made up for in surprise...