Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League was suggested by undergraduates in seven colleges, hopeful that some common ground, no matter how slight, could be found for "the salvation of athletic idealism from the serious threats that menace it today". Seven representatives of the most renowned educational institutions in the East should have been able to reach a basis for mutual agreement on this subject. But they merely returned with more of the same hypocritical assertions of "belief" that have served to veil but not conceal the real issue in the last three years...
...abysmal failure of seven Ivy college representatives to make any move to ward off the tidal wave of professionalism should prove that professionalism, like war, is not to be eradicated with mere diplomatic palaver by men whose hands are tied. University presidents must give up hiding their heads in the sand and assume the responsibility which they have unfairly foisted upon athletic directors and coaches--unless, of course, they are willing to admit that football can not be amateur henceforth. If athletics are part of college life, and if gate receipts make up an important share of the university...
...banking crisis, Charles Thomas Fisher Jr., a Republican, was last year named a director of Reconstruction Finance Corp. by Franklin Roosevelt. Last week President Roosevelt "reluctantly" permitted his great & good friend Frank Murphy, Michigan's new Governor, to take this banker son of one of the seven body-building Fisher brothers of Detroit away from RFC, make him the State's Banking Commissioner...
...Seven years ago he married Elizabeth Jane Briggs, daughter of body-building Walter Owen Briggs. They have five children...
During the first quarter it appeared as if it were going to be a close game, Verne Struck and Johnny Vruwink matching basket for basket, until the score stood at nine-all. Lowman then went into action to score seven points while the Tiger five was held to four. Later the Crimson's lead was stretched to eight points, but at the half it was again cut to a slim 23-21 point lead...