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...gratify them under the circumstances becomes a recognized obligation. This does not mean, of course, that Yale is not a stickler for all the amateur rules governing intercollegiate sport. She is, Technically no taint of professionalism touches her skirts. But that is hardly the point that Mr. Taft has in mind. He sees the source of the pressure to elevate muscle over mind and the enormous investment in equipment and coaches that is dedicated to this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...General Director of the North German Lloyd is a very tiny Prussian (he stands scarce four feet ten) yet full proportioned, hard, compact. A dynamo of vital energy, he has built up for the North German Lloyd a whole new post-Versailles fleet of 700,000 tons. A stickler for short cuts, he insists on being called only "STIMMING." Even the German Who's Who does not seem to know that the great little Prussian's parents used to refer to him as "Karl." Last week as he stood in the enormous shadow of the Bremen, the General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bremen Uber Alles | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...summary: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Salmon, Dunn, g. g., Bott Robinson, pt. pt., Stickler Kroell, c.pt. c.pt., Leach Pickard, 1d. 1d., Johnston Hartnett, 2d. 2d., Cornelson Park, 3d. 3d., Phinney, Crehan Nido, c. c., Carnell, King, Golan Glenn, 3a. 3a., McVean, Fish Gulick, Pope, 2a. 2a., Sieminski McGuire, Wilkinson, 1a., 1a., Gould Johnson, Sanders, o.h. o.h., Gunther, Moore Shapiro, Foshay, 1h. 1h., Babcock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKMEN TIE GREEN AND TAKE ON ST. JOHN'S | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...under way in the second and third, and areas through to a place well up among the "Vagabond kings" and "Student Princes" of historical musical comedy. Its source is "Under the Red Robe," the novel of twenty years ago by Stanley Weyman, and its plot, if you are a stickler about things like that, is so definite as to inspire bold-faced play acting by Cardinal Richelieu, in the person of Jose Ruben. Add his name to the sedentary principals who have dared do their historical atmosphere well, and have gona unapplauded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...summary follows: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Faude, g. g., Stickler Stollmeyer, l. f. b. r. f. b., Starke Des Roches, r. f. b. l. f. b., Rockefeller Bland, l. h. b. r. h. b., King Rudd, r. h. b. l. h. b., Johnstone W. D. Carter, c. h. b. c. h. b., Cohen Carrigan, o. l. o. r., Eagan Tatham, l. l. l. r., Nickols Kerness, c. f. c. f., Schmitz Vogel, l. r. l. l., Griffin Bodde, o. r. o. l., Woodbridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN SOCCER ELEVEN REPELS CRIMSON RUSH | 10/27/1928 | See Source »

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