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Protests that it's "not as fair" have prevailed upon Dolph Samborski to for-sake his "league plan" for Inter-House football and return to the usual round-robin system, it was reported yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Round Robin Plan Voted | 9/30/1948 | See Source »

Finally acceptable to Samborski and the Hygiene Department is a more carefully scheduled round-robin conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Round Robin Plan Voted | 9/30/1948 | See Source »

...eight-team round-robin, no eleven can be counted out of first division until its schedule is half completed. Every squad is at least assured of a match against every other House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Round Robin Plan Voted | 9/30/1948 | See Source »

House football will be played differently this year. The helter-skelter days of the round-robin schedule have yielded to a streamlined two-league system that Coach Dolph Samborski hopes will "increase interest and speed up the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Samborski Plans 'Leagues' For House Grid Contests | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

...presence of the teacher, a sort of armchair nihilist who first infected the boys' minds with the idea that there are superior men, above all moral law. Dall really wants to lay the corpse at his master's feet, the way a cat brings in a slaughtered robin. When he finally does, he finds that the teacher's endorsement of murder was always purely academic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 13, 1948 | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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