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...they were but three among seventy-five Exonians who came to Harvard in 1952, these students typified what some University administrators describe as "the Exeter syndrome." The use of such a phrase does not, however, imply that all Exeter graduates follow this pattern of agressive dissatisfaction, nor that the patern is confined exculsively to Exeter graduates...
This thorough knowledge of the Army T formation should rebound to J.V. advantage by enabling the players to discover who has the ball by spotting the blocking patern...
...England earthquakes seem to follow a usual patern, elucidated Professor Mather, who commanded public attention in 1925 by accurately predicting the advent of a similar geological rift...
Philadelphia's oldest morning daily, the Inquirer was founded in 1829 and bought by Colonel James Elverson 60 years later. Colonel Elverson's daughter, an international belle, married French Ambassador Jules Paternõtre in the 1890's, inherited the Inquirer at her brother's death in 1929, sold it within a year to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and his stepson-in-law John C. Martin for part cash, part credit...
Under the Curtis-Martin ownership the Inquirer started downhill to failure. Combining it with the famed old Public Ledger failed to slow its descent. In 1934 the Inquirer bounced back on the Paternõtres when the Curtis-Martin interests could no longer pay off their recurrent notes. Still carrying the old Ledger nameplate,* the Inquirer was administered for its absentee owners by Publisher Charles A. Tyler. Morning competition in Philadelphia was supplied by rambunctious New Dealer J. (for Julius) David Stern and his bustling Record (circulation: 221,927). When the Paternõtres sold...