Word: washburn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philip Washburn Prize of $150 "for the best thesis of sufficient merit, on an historical subject presented by a successful candidate for the degree of A. B. with Honors in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, whose main work is in History" was awarded to Robert Stolz Garson '28 of Cleverland, Ohio, for his thesis on "The Diplomatic Aspects of the Afghan Crisis of 1885" it has been announced...
NEVER has a biblical personnage encountered such ultra-modern handling as ancient Samson experiences at the hands of Mr. Washburn whose first novel stamps him as a twentieth century vulgarizer of the first rank. The classic shades of Milton's "Samson Agonistes" and Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delilah" will have a difficult time adjusting themselves to the ribald ghosts of this most recent characterization of the deliverer of the children of Israel. In fact, "Samson" stands in a fair way to be a literary pariah because of its uncompromising frankness and defiance of the literary code of ethics. If someone...
...family famous in Prague for their sporting activities; when 12, he had saved up enough money which he made from serving as a ball-boy to buy himself a tennis racquet. In 1919, not having touched a racquet for five years, he lost a five-set match to Washburn; since then he has not lost any match which he wanted to win. Lacoste, Cochet, Borotra, Tilden-these he has not played because they are, so to speak, amateurs. Kozeluh is a small brown man, as flexible as rubber, as quick as a squirrel; he speaks English badly...
...their attention upon the coaches. Of these, the most interesting is Marvin Allen ("Mai") Stevens who has replaced famed "Tad" Jones of Yale. Brown, lithe and shy. "Mai" Stevens played for Yale in 1923 on famed "Memphis Bill" Mallory's undefeated team; before that he had played for Washburn college, in Kansas. In his senior year at Yale he was ineligible ; later, he was wont to divide his time between medical school and backfield coaching. Last year he was Jones's assistant; this year he is the youngest of the important coaches and, since in football the cart...
...Olathe, Kan., Probate Judge George W. Fulmer, a 60-year-old official with one arm, married Elizabeth Conn, the 16-year-old daughter of an iceman, to one William Washburn, 21. This done, E. A. Conn, local iceman and father to Elizabeth, swirled into Probate Fulmer's office and beat the smiling, crippled, bewildered old fellow within an inch of his life...