Word: origination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of Acting President Brett's election was to settle the origin of "I'd die for dear old Rutgers." He was captain of the football team which played Princeton in 1892, the game in which the speech-long attributed to Captain Brett and various other members of the team -originated. Last week the Rutgers Alumni Association announced that credit for the brave words should be given to the late Frank Kingsley Grant, Class of 1895, who broke his leg while leading a flying wedge on the first kickoff. Prostrate upon the field, Footballer Grant philosophically remarked that...
Reporter Karl Kingsley Kitchen, who digs up many a good yarn for the New York Sun, last week told "The True Story of the Origin of a Famous Song...
...have any opinion, we deplore that from any Catholic source there should be any objection to President Hoover's sending a message which concerns the more than 10,000,000 of Lutheran origin." Reaction. Catholic dignitaries are never chastised publicly by their superiors. But into the White House last week poured messages of sympathy from leading Catholics who, disapproving Father Burke's outburst, appreciated how President Hoover would deplore the unpleasant and far-reaching political use that might be made of the episode, especially in the South...
...Origin of Vertebrates," Professor Raymond, Zoological Museum...
...advantage. With the new House Plan must come the dissolution of the very definite groups of like-minded young men who have traditionally inhabited Harvard's "Gold Coast" (Mt. Auburn Street). The House Plan, according to its prime mover, was calculated to eliminate cabals brought together by "wealth and origin.".... In spite of the fact that it is contrary to the spirit of the new system, Juniors Barry Wood and Charles Cunningham, room-mates, footballers, hockeyists, demanded that they be allowed to move into Lowell House with 25 of their cronies, a two-year-old clique. This the authorities reluctantly...