Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beginning Monday, March 17, a round-robin tournament will be played at Longwood among the lower six men on the squad to determine the personnel of the team which makes the southern trip. Captain Pfaffman, Briggs and Ingraham not competing. This tournament will last about three weeks...
Captain Clark at present is pointing his charges for the National Indoor Tournament in New York. Although the University horsemen drew a bye in the first round, they meet Yale in the semi-finals on March 18, the winner to play in the final on March 22. The only other scheduled engagement is the Outdoor Intercollegiates, to be played on Long Island May 7 to the 17. Last night the team played a practice game with the 101st Field Artillery in the Commonwealth Armory...
...true, as is implied in various comments, that class secretaries are elected as a general rule on a basis of all round conviviality during their college course rather than of competence, there is much force in the several arguments for a change of methods; but the accuracy of this generality can hardly be established by the facts. A majority of the secretaries have been men trained by their collegiate activities for executive and managerial positions, and are consequently well fitted for their posts. It would be a grave mistake to dismiss these men at the end of a few years...
...Daugherty confirmed rumors that he had held Sinclair's Oil stock. He declared that he had acquired it before entering the Cabinet, that during the year in which the oil leases were made, he had bought just 18 shares to round out his holdings, and that he sold the stock last year at a net loss of about $28 a share...
...bull knocked-out a farmer in the 5th round. The bull's name was Luis Angel Firpo of the Argentine. The farmers Christian name is unknown. But he is a North American and his sirname is Lodge. "Fat Farmer Lodge," he is called...