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...league champion Cornell will have rougher going than Columbia this afternoon at Ithaca when the Big Red meets Lafayette. Two weeks ago this game figured to be the usual opening "softie" for Cornell, but last Saturday Lafayette was barely beaten, 20 to 19, by Fordham. This gam might be a contest as late as the third quarter...
...dancers were scared stiff. For one thing, in rehearsals they had found the stage floor rather rough. Said one dancer: "I've never had to darn my toe shoes so much." And the British balletomanes they were to face for the first time were rumored to be even rougher. Wailed 20-year-old Dancer Melissa Hayden: "Gee, my stomach-I'm in real pain. I don't know how I can use my legs. I just want to hunch...
...dining hall, when first classmen at his table fired questions at him, Sherman always knew the answers- and often in more detail than his seniors. "You're too smart; get under the table," he was ordered, and there he sat, without dinner, taking his hazing. The hazers, rougher than they are these days, sought him out in barracks. They made him stand for an hour at attention holding a heavy book extended in one hand. On cold nights, he was shoved under a cold shower and his bedding thrown in with him. "He never complained, even to me," said...
Most club owners were pleased with the new order. Said Ted Collins, who bought out Dan Topping's Brooklyn-New York Yankees to merge with his own New York Bulldogs: "It can't be rougher than what I've been going through ... In four years I lost more than a million dollars." In a voice trembling with emotion, John Mara, president of the football Giants, cried: "The whole thing is wonderful...
Yesterday's was one of the longer and rougher practice sessions of the fall. It was longer because no time was devoted to dummy drill for the reason that the absence of several key men on account of hour exams and sundry other scholastic commitments made such a workout impractical. Just why it seemed rougher, or more spirited, than usual is hard...