Word: strong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, however, a dissenting voice, loud, strong, was raised. It belonged to burly Thomas Williams Slocum, 61, textile potentate, sportsman, clubman, orator, onetime (1924-27) president of the Harvard Club of Manhattan. He was a big man in his class at Harvard (1890), but not a P. B. K. man. His dissent, entitled "Fools Trespass When Angels Keep Off the Grass," appearing in the Harvard Advocate, did not bother with statistics. He did not try to prove ; he knew. ' He simply wielded his own bludgeon: "The Phi Beta Kappa men have apparently disappeared, and those who gave little...
...Yale Strong in Pole Vault
...Crimson advantage. Captain Sabin Carr of Yale will have no competition for first place. Second will also go to the Blue if Hardy enters. Third should be taken by either B. G. Burbank '28 or F. B. Clark '28, who consistently do 12 feet six inches or better. Strong competition may result for the one point going with third place, as the third entrant for Yale is not known. Burbank and Clark are consistent vaulters, and will make a hard fight to appear in the scoring...
...diversity of entertainment will be offered Harvard graduates at the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs in Philadelphia over this week-end. The baseball team will meet the strong Pennsylvania nine tomorrow afternoon. The triangular regatta among the Harvard, Navy, and Pennsylvania crews will take place later in the day after the baseball game. The University tennis team will meet the Penn netmen in a third athletic event...
...Soldiers Field. While little can be gleaned from the record of the Lampoon ball tossers so far this season the Mt. Auburn St. Aggregation is reputedly of unusual strength. The power of the CRIMSON nine has been amply demonstrated by its well earned mental and moral victory over the strong Princetonian batsmen last Saturday. The journalist ball players have enjoyed a complete rest from their bruising encounter on the New Jersey turf and are eagerly anticipating this afternoon's fracas with their time-honored rivals...