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...first of the games have already been played and the others will follow immediately in order to get through the schedule before the middle of next month. The first and second place winners of the two leagues into which the teams are divided will then play a round robin series for the championship. In addition to receiving gold H. A. A. intramural medals, it has been customary in past years for the winning team to play a team composed of faculty members...
...track losses could not be deducted from his income. If he lost consistently, they explained, the money he lost must have come from other sources than the track, and therefore he must pay income on it. Lawyer Ahern deplored the "great public clamor" against Snorkey, called him a "mythical Robin Hood." Prosecutor Johnson indignantly insisted the Government was presenting the case with "high purpose...
Most notable opposition to the Young Plan for football came from Harvard, where the undergraduate Crimson congratulated President Abbot Lawrence Lowell on his refusal to have a Harvard team participate in a round-robin tournament. Countered the Yale Daily News: "Harvard's refusal . . . although defensible, is not understandable. It is certainly a great shame...
...have gone together in this plan are Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Holy Cross, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Cornell. The tournaments, which will be held in the Yale Bowl on Saturday, December 5 and in the Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, December 9, will be in the nature of a round robin play. Four colleges will play at each place; there will be two twenty-minute games as a sort of preliminary after which the two winners will meet in another twenty-minute tussle. The four first named colleges will play at Yale, the others in New York...
...Author. Robin Edgerton Spencer, 34, discovered Henry James at 27, still thinks The Ambassadors "the loveliest novel" he knows. Born in Ogden, Utah, son of a train despatcher, he left school at 10 to work in a department store, clerked in various offices for 18 years. Then he started school again, on winter evenings at Washington's George Washington University. He spent his summer nights for four years writing The Lady Who Came to Stay. When he sent the unsolicited MS to Publisher Knopf he enclosed a self-addressed return wrapper. The wrapper was not used. Author Spencer now lives...