Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon facts. On this presumption it seems pertinent to ask, when, or how TIME ever conceived the idea that there is any unprintable version of ''The Halls of Montezuma"? Let me say to you, to all writers for TIME and to all its readers, that all Marines, rank and file, honor that anthem and hold it in the highest esteem. To them it is not a song to be desecrated by unprintable versions, or in any other way, and any attempt to do so in any Marine Camp would be summarily dealt with. During almost 26 years...
...object of sports in college life," he said, "should be the development of the physique of each and every student." He favored the system in operation at Oxford, where he had spent a year, in that there was a position on a team of some description or rank for every man. He said that, in England, the number of spectators who attended university contests was relatively small. In contrast to this he placed the American tradition of comparatively recent growth in which thousands of undergraduates "get their exercise by watching 22 gladiators fight...
...snobbish. The reason for this is plain. An amateur is usually defined as a man who does not compete for money and does not practice athletics as a way of earning his living. The athletic world is full of men and women who do not compete for money, who rank as amateurs and are in fact thoroughly professional. Whatever may be the source of their income, their main business in life is to win championships, and it is certainly a snobbish and unreal distinction to say that they are amateurs if they have a private income and professionals if they...
Professor Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, and Professor Leo Wiener, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, will assume the rank of Professor Emeritus in June, according to an announcement made at University Hall, yesterday. Both professors are rounding out teaching careers of over 30 years...
University squash team A defeated Tennis and Racquet Club in a close match and maintained its position as number two on the State League rank list. Freshman team C defeated Country Day School while University teams B and C and Freshman team D lost their matches...