Word: roster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Huskies are strictly a power club parading a roster of heavy sluggers. Last May Northeastern, with seven players who will participate today, rallied in the ninth inning to rout Mort Waldstein...
Tabulation of the entries shows that 31 colleges with nearly 150 of the greatest swimmers in the country will be on hand. All the toplight teams in the country from Bowdoin in Maine to the University of Southern California are included in the roster. The praises of the Elis, whose string of victories and smashed records nearly assures them the title, have been sung from coast to coast, but Michigan is bringing another powerful team, which includes free-styler Gus Sharemet, Captain Dobson Burton, John Pattern, and Jim Skinner...
Neither graduate nor undergraduate Instruction has as yet been radically affected by the war, but drastic reductions in graduate enrollment are predicted by the department. Among undergraduate courses, Economics of Agriculture, 71, has been dropped from the roster because Visiting Instructor Albert A. Thornbrough was called to Washington last September. Instructor Lloyd A. Metzier is replacing Professor Mason in Industrial Organization and Control, 62b, while Economic Aspects of War and Defense, 18b, offered in the first half year, has been extended to this semester as 18c and made available to men whether or not they have completed the previous half...
Superman athletic teams are nothing new at Great Lakes. During World War I the Station boasted not only a crack basketball team (17 victories in 21 starts), but the No. 1 football team in the U.S. Its roster included four players who have since become famed football coaches: George Halas (Chicago Bears), Jimmy Conzelman (Chicago Cardinals), Charlie Bachman (Michigan State) and Paddy Driscoll (backfield coach for Halas' Bears). Although they played first-rate teams, including one of Knute Rockne's strongest Notre Dame elevens, Great Lakes' fabulous gobs sailed undefeated through the 1918 season, wound...
...painter friends in protest against the poetry readings and discussions of landscape gardening that went on at the American Academy of Arts, the National Academy grew more sedate as it grew older. Artistic radicals rebel against its standards, meekly join if they are asked. Today in the select roster of its membership Luigi Lucioni, Eugene Speicher, Guy Pene du Bois, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh rank with Gilbert Stuart, George Inness, Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent. (Grant Wood and Thomas Benton have never been invited; neither was James McNeill Whistler...