Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outerbridge Wins With Sword...
...enter the finals by adding a 6 to 3 victory over Dartmouth to their 5 to 4 win over Tech of the previous evening. In the Dartmouth meet all three of the University men lost to Cetrullo, but defeated the other two Green foilsmen. Dartmouth had no duelling sword team. The Harvard line-up was the same as that which faced Yale in the afternoon. Dartmouth was represented by Cetrullo. Townsend, and Lilly...
...chaperonage of John Sloan, to exhibit year after year a freakish rout of paintings wilder than any parade of camels and elephants. The entire roof of the Waldorf is theirs to use; anyone who has painted anything can exhibit it there, and painters as remote from convention as sword-swallower, snake charmer, bearded ladies, send in their works-and are laughed at. And many of those who roused the stormiest guffaws ten years ago are now selling their canvases for $10,000 apiece...
...similar status already in the Museum, are the figures of Abraham and Melchisedec from the Transept of the former Augustinian Church of Wechselburg in Saxony. Both of these figures, mediaeval symbols of secular and ecclesiastical authority, are remarkable examples of human characterization. Abraham is represented as wielding the sword against the hostile powers of the world, while Melchisedec is shown carrying a cup of libation for spiritual evils. Placed against the same wall before which the Wechselburg Pulpit and Crucifix are mounted, the two figures fit well into the setting and worthily complete the exhibit of thirteenth century Teutonic sculpture...
...duelling sword bouts, Pennsylvania took the lead with five victories out of the 12 matches. The Nassau squad captured second place with four wins and the University trio finished third with three triumphs. The Princeton squad, coached by William Roper, Tiger football mentor, gave a creditable exhibition in the initial major tournament of its first season of intercollegiate competition...