Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At week's end Whitman totted up the results of the crusade. They had sold over 3,000 tickets, almost wiped out their season deficit. The team had won its game with Eastern Oregon 48 to 20. And the Walla Walla alumni had promised to raise enough money to...
Led by Student Body President Art Whitman, a distant cousin of the founder, the students went to work in a rash of pep talks and rallies. At one rally, members of the faculty showed how they felt by turning up in football uniforms. Then the crusade moved into downtown Walla...
"A" for Appreciation. Walla Walla caught the fever. The Boosters' Club proclaimed "A" (for Appreciation) Week. The Chamber of Commerce switched the date of its annual "pigskin party" so that 250 high-school students from nearby towns could see the game. The Chamber's secretary and the town...
"Two years ago," says President Abram Sachar, "we had nothing but a blueprint and a prayer." The blueprint was the work of a group of wealthy U.S. Jews who raised an initial $1,500,000 to set up a university that was to be sponsored by Jews but was to...
For Brandeis' 247 freshmen and sophomores (the school will not graduate a class until 1952), there are broad basic courses labeled social science, natural science, and humanities, as well as a growing menu of electives, e.g., oral communication, Hebrew, a survey of style and structure in music. To teach...