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Large entries and fast times featured the annual inter-House winter track meet won by Lowell House in the Briggs and Carey cages yesterday afternoon. Trailing until the final relay the Bellboys came from behind to win the event and nip Eliot House by two points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Snatch Inter-House Track Meet From Elephants With Win In Relay Race | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

...event, the relay, to score an upset over the hitherto undefeated Deacons. The two teams were two points apart before the event, but Lowell's relay team composed of Harry Hammond Wheeler Smith, Douglas Sears, and Sam McClellan beat the Kirkland mermen by a scant two yards in a nip and tuck race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT SWIMMERS WIN TO TAKE FIRST PLACE | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

Adams squeezed out Lowell in a tight overtime game, 19 to 17, breaking a 17 to 17 tie at the end of the regular playing time. Kirkland swamped Dunster 17 to 6, while Winthrop came from behind to nip Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams, Kirkland Hoopsters Win to Tie for League lead | 1/12/1939 | See Source »

Tony Mischo, an offensive wizard, is back for another year at one forward spot, and diminutive Chuck Diven will be his running mate. At the guards the competition is the keenest as Gerry Seeders, Bernie Schreiber, Tom McNichol, and Norm Retchin are waging a nip-and-tuck race...

Author: By D. DONALD Peddle, | Title: LEAGUE HOOPSTERS HASTEN PRACTICE | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

...Nip & Gyp. Rugged, ruddy Walter Gropius has been at Harvard two years and is now the popular chairman of the Department of Architecture. He helped assemble last week's show, found its success satisfying for one reason in particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Historic A B Cs | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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