Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strikes a sour note in the policies of the chief executive. He has raised a delicate legal question that may drag on for months, but whatever the decision, this struggle of personalities is another proof of the peculiar opportunism which the President has always possessed. He is a chess player whose plan consists of a vast desire to win, whose method is to cope with each situation when it comes up and not before, hardly troubling himself to look more than one move ahead. This time he seems to have worked himself into a hole...
...Sophomores dominate the shot put. Burly George Downing, Varsity football player, grunted and puffed his way to first place in the Quadrangular. At Exeter and as a Freshman here he put down all challengers. Throwing the 16 lb. in the Yale Meet last spring he reached 45 ft. 6 1/2 in., a foot better than did the Varsity. In the Quadrangular this winter he surpassed 46 feet by 1/2 an inch. His teammate Howard Mendel was second in the Quad Meet, with a heave 6 inches short. Mendel, with his quick snappy put, has been putting the shot out further...
Filling other positions are Captain Ed Whitney '38, George Clowes '37, Austin Scott '37, president of the rugby squad, Adrian Fisher '27, Tom Gephart, a former Princeton player, and Henry Miller '35, and Gavin Hadden '38 in the fullback position...
Emperor Nero is supposed to have been a bang-up organist and bagpiper. England's Henry VIII composed chamber music and religious choruses. Germany's Frederick the Great was a flute player. Most musical of present-day royal figures is Denmark's tall, genial Crown Prince Frederik...
...owners, commuters and many Polish, Italian and Negro families whose breadwinners work on the estates. In Roslyn's schools children from all these groups sit side by side. Ten years ago these schools began to go "progressive." Since tall, athletic Superintendent Frederick R. Wegner (a onetime Cornell baseball player) arrived four years ago, they have won fame outside Roslyn. But progressive education, though less costly in Roslyn than in some other towns, is more expensive than old-fashioned schooling and a year ago Roslyn taxpayers began to circulate a petition for a return to the three Rs. The petition...