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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hammered out two runs in the first of the seventh; and the Phi Beta Kappa men, aided for the second day by Herter, resorted to scholarly craft to win out. Their batting order was entirely changed to bring their heaviest hitters to the plate. Stoutly and bold-facially they upheld their action as legal, and Umpire Brown, who only occasionally showed faint glimmerings of baseball knowledge, allowed it. Crafty dealing, and its perpetrators, however, received their just reward. McIntosh ignominiously struck out, Herter could only touch Morris's remarkable delivery for an easy infield grounder on which he died...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHIFTY ACTS JUSTLY REWARDED | 5/8/1914 | See Source »

George Huff of Illinois University said he could not see any difference in a ball played receiving money and a runner a gold watch, yet one was a professional and the other an amateur. Dr. Young of Cornell upheld essentially the same view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALK CENTERED ON BASEBALL | 1/5/1914 | See Source »

...Junior debating team defeated the Senior team last evening in the first debate of the interclass series. The team upheld the affirmative side of the question "Resolved, that all elective state and municipal officers (except judges) be subject to the recall," and debated in the following order: B. Winkelman, C. K. Horwitz and L. C. Henin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Debaters Triumph | 11/21/1913 | See Source »

...used for the floors of the foyer. There are to be two entrances and porches, one on the west and the other on the north side of the building; the west porch will be of semi-circular construction, while that to the north is rectangular and upheld by pillars. On the first floor there will be, besides the vestibule, coat room and secretary's room, a large foyer from which a broad staircase leads to the second floor; and two small and two large class rooms, the latter being about twice the size of the former. In these rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC BUILDING READY IN APRIL | 10/31/1913 | See Source »

...former. The Senior team, made up of W. A. Hamlin, C. Silbert, and O. J. Smith, argued the negative of the proposition: "Resolved, That Woman Suffrage should be adopted by all States of the Union"; and the Junior team, R. L. West, H. C. Place, and B. H. Knollenberg, upheld the affirmative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIORS WON FIRST DEBATE | 11/29/1912 | See Source »

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