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Thomas F. Logan is just the opposite of the aggressive, hammering, obviously successful Lasker. He is slimmer, fairer, quieter -not smoother, for dynamos of the Lasker type are well-oiled-but gentler, more subtly persuasive. His training was that of a journalist-economist, after a genteel boyhood and Jesuit education in Philadelphia. He was a Washington correspondent and there learned the ins and outs of politics, which stood him in good stead when, in 1919, he started an advertising company in Manhattan with no accounts at all. His first act was to undertake, for the Association of Railroad Executives...
...unusual promise and prowess this year. On their southern trip during the Spring vacation they vanquished all their opponents with but little difficulty. Since then Williams, Technology, and Columbia have been beaten, and the team has secured a great deal more practice, Progress has been especially noted in the smoother functioning of the three doubles combinations...
...uncomfortably; gentlemen regarded one another in amazement. Were these scratchers the two greatest billiard players in the world? Hoppe chalked his cue, made a run of 86. This, the gallery thought, was something like it. The game went on. Neither man was at his best, but Hoppe was the smoother of the two. Then Schaefer got the balls against the cushion, began to run off shots suavely, rapidly. The twitching of his cue was barely perceptible, his head hardly moved; 296 shots he made, stopped. There was no point in scoring any more. He was champion...
Precocity is a word that may well be used to describe this sister college of the Orient, when one remembers that a brief score of years has seen its growth into one of the leading institutions of the world's largest nation. The process of growth has been no smoother than one might expect in a city where a semi-monthly revolution or two is the ordinary distraction from academic pursuits, but the present year has seen important development in a unified administration looking forward to still greater progress under President Hume...
After two consecutive setbacks the 1927 quintet got back in the winning habit Saturday afternoon, outscoring the New Hampshire State Freshmen 33 to 25. Improved shooting and smoother passing featured the Crimson attack...