Word: tech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Sophomore Johnny Abbott, on whom he had been counting for the stroke seat, came down with the mumps at the beginning of vacation. The unbeaten record of the Varsity lightweights seems in jeopardy this year, with only Captain Seth Crocker and Pete Koeniger back from the 1940 eight. Tech, nosed out last year by a scant margin, has seven of last year's crew back and in addition has over a month's more practice behind them than the Crimson, which should make them an exceedingly tough nut for the Newell lightweights to crack...
...present plans go through, next year's basketball team will take a western trip during the Christmas vacation, meeting Bradley Tech, Notre Dame, Michigan State, and the Universities of Detroit and Illinois...
...Tech men naively believe that the boys at the "Country Club" (that's us) refer to them disdainfully as the "plumbers down the river." To learn that their mortal enemies have rarely been guilty of a more complete or nasty comment than "Technology? Good school," would be heartbreaking, but the myth is as yet undisturbed. Their continuous guerrilla warfare, consisting of such minor pranks as neckties draped around John Harvard and abortive attempts to weld the gates, has gone unnoticed. Last year, however, Rochester's abduction did attract some attention, but Harvard failed to grasp the idea that...
...cause of the amusing state of affairs is simple enough. Any undergraduate body needs an enemy not on the faculty. But Cal Tech is too far away, and Northeastern just doesn't rate. However, the logical selectee had been busy with a New Haven acquaintance for 157 years when Tech was born, and has never found time to acknowledge the declaration of war. Nevertheless Tech has been able to derive a lot of fun from the imaginary hostilities, and their crew race with Harvard (such as it is) remains the Big Athletic Event of the year. No one wants...
...Rourke, Manzo, Gladchuk, Zabilaid, Connoily, and Worenleoz forget that the football season was over when they lost, 59 to 36, to the Crimson Independents yesterday afternoon at the Rindge Tech gymnasium in a basketball game marked by butting, charging, blocking, broken field running, and a total of nineteen foule...