Word: muhlenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard-Nosed, Hard-Bitten.WhenCoach Schwartzwalder arrived in 1949, Syracuse's chief interest in football was to beat archrival Colgate occasionally. Coach Ben brought with him a 25-5 record, compiled at little Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., and a determination to revive Syracuse's glory days of the '20s, when the team won 50, lost 11, tied 6 in seven seasons. As a 152-lb. center out of Huntington, he had learned hard-nosed football at West Virginia playing for Coach Greasy Neale, later coach of the pro's world champion Philadelphia Eagles. As a paratrooping major...
Television, according to broadcasters, is intrinsically educational. It broadens young minds and uplifts old ones. Last week a plausible footnote to this plausible theory came from English Instructor Ralph S. Graber of Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College. TV may open all sorts of vistas, Graber reports, but the quality of its teaching is dubious. The effect on his students, he avers, is "a marked increase in the number of malapropisms and errors in diction...
...evidence, Graber put together a montage of gems from recent themes produced by Muhlenberg freshmen: "Now of days it is quite difficult to find a student who doesn't have a devil-makes-hair attitude and take his educational opportunity for granite. The student does not do his upmost in his studies, nor does he possess the self-insurance necessary for him to face the complexing problems of college...
...symbol of supervisory office. * Dutch Lutherans came first to America (New Amsterdam) in 1623. In 1638 Swedish Lutherans established a colony in Delaware. By mid-18th century Lutheranism was firmly established, mostly by Germans, along the eastern seaboard. Patriarch of Lutheranism in the U.S. was the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, organizer and theologian, who in 1748 formed the first Lutheran Synod in America. In the early 19th century Lutheranism joined the great westward move, swept along by new waves of immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia...
...LEHMANN Muhlenberg Press Philadelphia