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...mid-Western coach, however, objected to the change because, "now we'll have to start re-training the specialists." This was an unusual comment. Even with unlimited substitution, most good coaches drilled offensive players in defensive tactics, and vice versa. What the mid-Westerner objected to, in other words, was having to return to sound coaching practices...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/17/1953 | See Source »

...admissions tactics may be boiled down to three. First is the Regional Scholarship program. Designed to attract top students from every area in the nation, it was introduced in 1929. Eight regions were then designated for purposes of awarding these grants: Western; Rocky Mountain; North Central--consisting of the Mid-Western states west of the Mississippi; Great Lakes; South Central; South Eastern--including the southern seaboard states; North Eastern--made up of Pennsylvania, New York, and Southern New England; and Northern New England. Yale awards at least one of these scholarships to each district annually; most often...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Yale Admission Office Gets Record Number Of Applicants as Aggressive Policy Pays Off | 11/22/1952 | See Source »

...Republican Senate is elected under Eisenhower, it will be run by Taft, not Lodge. If a Republican Senate is elected under Stevenson, Taft and his mid-western isolationists will effectively shatter any hope of bi-partisanship on foreign affairs. Only if a Democratic Senate is elected will our internationalist policies be continued. Control of the Senate hangs on three seats. For this reason alone, the re-election of Lodge might well be dangerous to the future of our country. If we hope to keep the gains we have made in unifying the free world against Communism, we must return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LODGE AND LANDIS | 10/28/1952 | See Source »

...Shulman and Ira Wallach are the two other writers on the program. Shulman has written about the army and mid-western college life. Some of his books are "Zebra Derby," "The Feather Merchants," and "Barefoot Boy With Cheek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "What's Funny?" 4 Humorists Ask In Forum Tonight | 10/24/1952 | See Source »

Bender emphasized the fact that he was broadening, in a two-fold manner, the powers he found when he entered the Admissions Office last July. The proposed Mid-Western convention, in addition to an intensification of the "field trip" program, are the points of concentration...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Bender Plans Mid-West Alumni Group Meeting | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

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