Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rodman A. Sharp '51 was elected president of the Photographic Society at its annual election meeting Monday night. Other newly elected officers are: William Rotch '51, secretary; Henry M. Stevens, Jr. '50, treasurer; and G. Groff-Smith '49 and Sumner I. Zacks '51, executive board members...
...Smith once said, "Look at the record." And the record shows that the grandstand quarterback was wrong. Take his theory that Harvard should have used more end runs. Now look at the facts. Cornell has one of the fastest teams in the country. That means that backer-ups should be able to get to the flanks quickly to squelch end runs. On the Harvard side of the picture, the Crimson's one breakaway runner, Hal Moffie, was out of action. And two men who must throw crucial blocks on end-around plays, quarterback Bill Henry and running guard Howie Houston...
...picked Wellesley she seldom knows. But she is apt to feel superior to Wellesley's rivals (as rivals feel superior to Wellesley). According to the girls, Radcliffe tends toward "the creepy, arty bookworm." Smith, some think, "makes big with the party type of girls." They don't care very much about Vassar, either: "Vassar makes girls into businesswomen." Wellesleyites prefer to think of themselves as "just well-rounded...
...thing she was in for: raising money (Wellesley was after $7½ million, Barnard $5,000,000, Smith $7,000,000). She would find little comfort in the fact that all her fund-raisers are women. What U.S. women need, former President Horton had found, is a "psychological catching-up" about money. "They are too used to writing out household checks-for $10 or $20. The trouble is that you can't run a college on household checks...
...Garrison, and to the fortune of his father, Henry Villard (one of the builders of the Northern Pacific Railroad), Editor Villard spent a lifetime plumping for such causes as civil liberties and pacifism, finally came to the conclusion that most of his heroes (notably Wilson, Charles Evans Hughes, Al Smith and F.D.R.) had feet of clay...