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...policy is carried out, the Ivy League will probably isolate itself more from the national picture, since at this point it is apparent that most other conferences have only mild intentions of abandoning professional football despite all the pious talk. Should the Ivy teams all live up to the code, the games should be evenly matched regardless of how good other teams are. The games should draw respectable crowds which will maintain athletic for-all programs without digging further into academic funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

Except for the general recommendations that the porter system be continued in the University and also at Harkness Commons, the remaining conclusions are but pious hopes that urge the College to explain duties to the porters, raise efficiency, reduce the feeling of social stigma, inspire high morale, and proceed with caution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Light Dusting | 2/23/1952 | See Source »

...Teresa of Avila,* the 16th century mystic, never liked the picture that was painted of her at 60 by the pious but uninspired Fray Juan de la Miserias. "God forgive you, Fray Juan," she told him, "for having painted me so very ugly and stiff." But for more than three centuries Fray Juan's painting was the only likeness of St. Teresa the world had ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Face of a Mystic | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...well-run athletic program, a swimming pool, a summer camp. "It meant everything in my whole life as a kid," says Pardue. "I began to feel that the church had done so much for me that I might go into the ministry. There was nothing pious about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Workers' Bishop | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...starts out simply enough: "We are a pious people but a proud one too, aware of a noble lineage and a great lineage and a great inheritance... we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the martial cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?" He aswers his question: "Not by two-thirds...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Time for Tonic | 11/30/1951 | See Source »

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