Word: pierson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ROUGHLY SPEAKING - Louise Randall Pierson-Simon and Schuster...
Forty Years' Record. Louise Randall Pierson's autobiography covers the years from 1902, when Father died, to the present. Roughly Speaking is as uneven as the years it spans. The 332 pages of neat, small print, marred by an affected breeziness and by curiously false conversational passages, nevertheless make up a lively, candid, sometimes exasperatingly interesting book. Its record is bitter, if the facts of the family's struggle alone are considered. But Mrs. Pierson is so persistently cheerful in keeping the record that she seems optimistic by will power alone. Sometimes, like sunlight filtering through...
Making a field goal from approximately the same angle that Bob Fisher did in the Varsity game, Ted Brooks supplied the scoring punch for Leverett as the Bunnies defeated Pierson College to win the Harvard-Yale intra-college crown. The other three Crimson House teams which played at New Haven lost to the Elis by convincing scores, however...
...whole Leverett backfield of Gillis, Jayson, Hurley, and Hardin, and especially Al Aldrich and Walt Parson's in the line, played sterling games as the Bunnies kept Pierson back on their heels for the whole game...
Adams House, walk-away winner of the House touch football league, will make the trip to New Haven tomorrow to tangle with the Yale champs, Pierson College, leaving with the Varsity and other House teams, on Friday morning. The Gold Coasters also ran off with the separate Freshman touch championship, but only the upperclass squad will meet the Elis...