Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week the result was announced-or lack of result. Some 10,000 citizens had tried to make Woodrow Wilson mean $25,000 to them. But, with the seventy-first anniversary of the birth of Woodrow Wilson at hand, Dr. George McLean Harper, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton and foreman of the essay-judging jury, was obliged to announce that not one of the essays submitted was, in substance or style, "fit to be published without embarrassment and submitted to the critical judgment of educated men and women...
Married. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, 51, onetime Collector of Internal Revenue, massive center in '99 for the Princeton football eleven, of Manhattan; and Mrs. Norma Jones Steelsmith, 37, school teacher, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; in Manhattan...
...Haven third with $766,970. Yale students subscribed $260,142; Alumnus William Howard Taft, $10,000. The drive drew donors from classes ranging over nearly a century, from 1853 to a twelve-year-old who aspires to join the class of 1938; included graduates of Harvard, Princeton, Colgate...
...University chess team won the championship of the Quadrangular Chess League, composed of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Rutgers, and took possession of the Belden-Stephens trophy, for the coming year, in New York last week...
...odds favor the University outfit, as both Harvard and Princeton defeated Yale at the chess matches during the football season, and Yale succeeded in vanquishing West Point...