Word: pennsylvania
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...until after World War I (where, he says, he was wounded when a case of salmon fell on his foot-"It gives me a picturesque limp on rainy days") that he went through the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude. As soon as he could he headed for Cambridge University, there "to walk over door sills that had been worn by 600 years of students and to sit in lecture rooms where Marlowe and Milton had sat." He had long since made up his mind what his life's work would...
...situation in New York became worse and worse, one other Ivy League college joined with the CRIMSON'S crusade. James M. Armstrong, editor-in-chief of the Daily Pennsylvania, wired, "We are inviting student response by reprinting your telegram in the Letters to the Editors column...
Howard E. Houston '50 was named to the Cornell football team's all-opponent eleven. The 1949 Ivy League Champions picked Houston and Princeton's Holland Donan to fill the tackle berths on the team. Pennsylvania's second-place Ivy League football team landed four men on the squad to dominate the field...
Back home some 400,000 miners heard the latest news with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in June. In July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only...
Along with most of his contemporaries, Stuempfig has tried his hand at abstract art, but only once. "I was told to paint an abstraction," says he, "and I did it, in school, where all abstractions belong. But at the Pennsylvania Academy where I studied I tried to resist the tendency of the average art student to like the obvious -the obvious being Picasso and Matisse...