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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another famed footballer-politician is Head-Coach William W. Roper of Princeton University, since 1920 a member of Philadelphia's city council with mayoral aspirations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Primaries | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Sept. 3 concerning the success of the Debating Team of the University of Puerto Rico in the Eastern States this past spring. This team did not win in all its debates. It was defeated by Boston University on April 10, by Bates about a week later and then by Princeton. Of the dozen or so debates in which the Porto Ricans took part, only two were in Spanish. This in itself is certainly an exceedingly fine comment on how much interest is taken in foreign languages in our American colleges. To think that of all the universities invited to debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...seems to me to be like a game of college football," and, "When I play tennis and lose, I make it a point to get to the net first to congratulate my opponent." She is so charming that James A. O'Gorman Jr., the smooth, young, curly-haired, Princeton-educated son-of-the-system whom she defeated for the Council, took her to lunch the day after she beat him. Debating against Mr. Phelps last week she cried: "I am not running on my looks, my age, possessions or sex. I ask no chivalry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Phelps-Pratt | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Henry Vandyke, Wilson Democrat. Princeton patriarch. Reason: "In Defense of Religious Liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Votes Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Eleanor Donnelley, daughter of Reuben H. Donnelley (telephone books); to the Rev. Calvin Pardee Erdman, Professor of Biblical Literature at Occidental College, son of famed Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, of Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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