Word: thayer
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Champion of the Yard circuit will meet the house League leader in a post-season tilt. The new league will officially get under way at 3 o'clock this afternoon as the Holworthy Vets meet the Straus Sad Sacks, and the Stoughton Raiders share the floor with the Thayer Hall Aesthetes...
...Lord's Prayer, like the New Testament in general, a sectarian document (TIME, Jan. 27), and should its recitation therefore be barred from public schools? Dr. Vivian Trow Thayer, Leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, thinks the answer is yes. Last week in Manhattan he declared: "The use of the Lord's Prayer in the public schools is but a camel's nose for a larger program. . . . Certain religious denominations now look to the public schools as a means for insuring their survival...
...brief sojourn at the University of Chicago in 1909 was the last stop on Professor Pound's way to Harvard. Dean Thayer invited him to become Story Professor of Law and 1913 found him Carter Professor of Jurisprudence. At Dean Thayer's death in 1916, Professor Pound became Dean of the Law School, the first non-graduate of the School to hold that post...
...addition to manager George Caploe, trainer Hal Knowlton, and coach Mikkola, the Crimson track entourage which will leave South Station at 4 o'clock this afternoon will include the following men, listed by events: 60-yard dash--H. H. Thayer, R. G. Toppan; 60-yard high, and 80-yard low hurdles--W. Flint, D. W. Read; one-mile run--J. F. Cogan, F. J. Gurley; two-mile run--H. Rosenfeld; one-mile relay--C. R. Wharton, D. C. Hamblett, A. F. Ruby, J. G. Wheeler; two-mile relay--D. L. Groshong, J. AA. Edelman, F. J. Gurley, F. B. Withington...
Pete Harwood, the Crimson's ace pole vaulter, finished second in his department with a hoist of 13 feet, while Bill Lawrence's 12.6 jump earned him third place. Both Varsity sprinters, Harvey Thayer and Bob Toppan, failed to place against a classy field of 50-yard dash contestants, although Thayer reached the semi-finals, and the Harvard two-mile relay team finished third in a field...