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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening April 3, the Crimson defeated the Country Club of Virginia at Richmand, 6-3. On Monday and Tuesday, however, the perennially powerful North Carolina team trimmed the Crimson 14-1, both days, despite a lineup switch by Barnaby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Players Gain 3-3 Record On Tennis Tour | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Southern colleges, traditionally strong in lacrosse, defeated the Crimson four times in four days. On the fifth, which was last Friday, the Crimson squad lost by the largest score of the tour to Princeton, 22 to 3. The squad played Navy, Virginia, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, besides Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Ends Spring Trip With Five Losses to Top Colleges | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Captain Dexter Lewis was the outstanding player on the team during the trip and by far the highest scorer. In the game with Virginia he sank nine of the ten points tallied by the varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Ends Spring Trip With Five Losses to Top Colleges | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Counsel for Mother Jones. Davis was born in 1873 in Clarksburg, W. Va., on April 13, the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, and he became one of his country's staunchest advocates of the democracy of Jefferson. As a West Virginia attorney Davis once joined Socialist Eugene V. Debs in defending the United Mine Workers' firebrand organizer, Octogenarian "Mother" Mary Jones, on charges of inciting a riot in a coal strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The Jeffersonian | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Counsel for Mr. Morgan. Slowly, John W. Davis of West Virginia and New York began to pull ahead of the other also-rans, until William Jennings Bryan, den mother of the Democrats, cast aside his palmetto fan and rose to denounce Davis as the advocate of Wall Street. Next day William Randolph Hearst's supreme pundit, Arthur Brisbane, reported it: "Instantly, Davis' vote dropped away to practically nothing, and there it will stay. For. as Mr. Bryan said, you can't nominate the lawyer of J. Pierpont Morgan for President of the United States." The following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The Jeffersonian | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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