Word: ursinus
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...opinion that I was unfair to students; it neglected to mention that I often am given standing ovations by students. TIME recorded that I am no longer considered a liberal; it neglected to mention that I was given honorary degrees at two liberal colleges this year (Rollins and Ursinus). TIME recorded, regretfully but with unquenchable hope, "Capp so far has never been attacked on campus." TIME did not mention that I appear on campuses by invitation of students, and that I am, I rather think, the most in demand of all campus lecturers at my outrageous fee. TIME mentioned that...
...Supermen. Bransome, a graduate of Ursinus College (1912), got his start in business as a Philadelphia construction man, took on "any job that came along"-including repairing Delaware River bulkheads between tides. An early aviator (1912), he flew for the Navy in World War I. At 26 he joined General Motors' export division as a trainee, was made head of the division in a year. His reason: "The guys who were teaching me were even dumber than I was." He soon switched to a top post at Wilson Welder & Metals Co., Inc., where he pioneered in the infant electric...
...volunteers in schools and colleges all over the U.S. had answered her discreet little notes asking for help, placed in classical journals. A professor at Tulane University had made her a list of 8,000 Latin words which closely resemble the English. A teacher at Pennsylvania's Ursinus College had made a frequency count of Vergil's vocabulary. The chairman of the State University of Iowa's classics department, one of her associates, had made a frequency count of syntax forms. Miss Geweke had begun to write the lessons that would best prepare pupils for Vergil...
...first-year team the Cadets are coming here with a pretty fair record. Reasselaer Polytech, Ursinus, Lafayette, and Boston College have already fallen victim, with only Maryland having been able to take their measure. And this is their first year of varsity football...
...Dick Gilbert, who is expected to lead the attack, played in Madison Square Garden for a championship Duke University quintet. The tallest man on the squad, 6 foot 5 inch Bob Gottschling, was a starter for Manhattan College, while Jim Gallagher, an Irishman from Notre Dame, Bill Dearden from Ursinus, and Bill Bateman, a member of the 1943 Brown five, round out the crew of prospective high scorers...