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...used to take care of the four furnaces in Massachusetts hall when there was only one room on the first floor. A half-hour before examination time, students would come in there and open all the windows. I kept the furnaces going full tilt to keep the building warm, but with the windows open it would get cold as a barn. Then when the professor came in, the students would complain the building was not heated enough, and was too cold for an examination. Generally they were excused and the exam postponed to another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Gate-man Finds College Life More Subdued Than it Was 40 Years Ago--Regrets Passing of Horse-car Horseplay | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

Papers the next morning said "Argentine Beats U. S. in Second Polo Tilt Tying Series?Lacey Hero" or, after the third game, "U. S. Defeats Argentine in Final Game Clinching Championship of Americas?Harriman Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...University Cross-Country team won the initial tilt of the season from Holy Cross on Thursday by the convincing score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY HARRIERS DEFEAT H. C. CONTINGENT | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

...cigar-smoking Frank James Marshall had started well, but finished only seventh. José R. Capablanca, Cuban, former world's champion, took second money. Though his final score was less than Bogoljubow's, a moral victory was his, for he had defeated Bogoljubow in their only personal tilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chess | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...past two games. The new field was to have been dedicated in a contest with the Army on May 18, which was cancelled on account of the weather. Then a match with Pennsylvania Military College last Saturday was called off for the same reason, so that today's tilt will be the opener in outdoor intercollegiate polo at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON POLOISTS MEET BLUE IN RETURN CONTEST | 6/2/1928 | See Source »

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