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...lower stroke was partially responsible for the almost immediate falling back of the Harvard boat to third place. Penn was already far in the wake. The crews reached the finish with the Big Red a length in the lead and Harvard and Syracuse second in a dead heat. The Quaker and the Cornell shells immediately started to sink while the foundering oarsmen made for the launches. By constant bailing, the Syracuse and Crimson eights managed to keep the water from lapping at the gunwales inboard until they reached the boat house...
Beard's great-grandfather was a Federalist, his grandfather a Whig and rebel Quaker who ran "a one-man church" and speculated in Western lands; his father was a "copper-riveted, rock-ribbed, Mark Hanna, true-blue" Republican who prospered as building contractor, ran a bank, read the classics, raised his family on a farm to develop their backbone. At 18 Charles Beard owned a country weekly, the graduation gift of his father, ran it at a profit for four years. At Methodist DePauw College his extracurricular activities included reporting for a Republican newspaper, electioneering for a Republican Senator...
Healey has been saved for this afternoon's contest because the battle for the League championship is very close, and a single defeat received by the Stahlmen would throw the race wide open. Healey's pitching rival will be a rapidly improving Quaker Sophomore, Tony Caputo...
...This Quakers found themselves lodged in the League cellar after the smoke had cleared away from last year's competition, and they are contemplating a big rise this spring. Colorful Frank Reagan, who will do the twirling today for the Carissmen, is one of the main reasons for Quaker optimism. Diven, Trexler, and Ogden are the big guns in the home team's attack, and these boys are primed to take full advantage of the short right field barrier on their ball park...
...save democracy from complete destruction." To a liberal group which met last week in a West Philadelphia Y. M. C. A., intolerance of intolerance seemed a contradiction in terms. It acted on its convictions. This Committee for Racial and Religious Tolerance-an organization headed by such men as Quaker Rufus Matthew Jones, Baptist Daniel Alfred Poling, Congressman Francis J. Myers-was in session when 30 hecklers burst into its meeting. The Committee tolerantly let them heckle. The invaders shouted denunciations of Jews and praise of Hitler, tossed around anti-Semitic pamphlets and stickers...