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...stand forth as the great builders of our industrial might . . . Coming historians will realize that this era ... is one of the great hours in the history of the U.S. and English-speaking peoples, and may be invested with the heroic radiance of the Elizabethan period or the Age of Pitt...
...games started in Dallas at the N.C.A.A.'s annual January meeting, when the organization's directors decided that Something Must Be Done about football gate receipts, which pay the way of virtually every collegiate athletic association in the country. A committee was formed, chaired by Tom Hamilton of Pitt, to study the real and present danger of television...
...called because the four Inns-Gray's, Lincoln's, the Inner and Middle Temples-once furnished lodgings for their members. Francis Bacon was a "bencher"' (senior member), and Thomas More, Thackeray, Pitt, Burke and Disraeli all attended the Inns...
...forerunner of modern registration was the Matriculation Book. John William Pitt Abbot '29 was the first student to sign in it, on September 26, 1826. The president of the University conducted this procedure in Wadsworth House. Each incoming freshman was required to sign his name and sponsor (the name of the man or school where he had prepared), and this would suffice for four years...
That was in 1920. Jordan's collar bone was broken that year but by the time be was graduated he had captained Warner's last Pitt team, been named an All-American end on one selector's list and given honorable mention on several others, captained the basketball team, and played three years of varsity, baseball as an outfielder...