Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly to be hoped that the plan will work out successfully, because it will go a long way towards the solution of the professional problem in tennis. It seems inevitable that we are going to have tennis pros just as we have them in golf, and the sooner they are treated sensibly the better it will be for the sport as a whole. More good tennis players will take up teaching the game as soon as they realize that they are not going to be ostracized from the court aristocracy for doing it; and the more good teachers there...
...upon that of the United States. Undoubtedly there are some features of the English system which may be useful in an American College, but just what these are can be more soundly determined if at first the House Plan is approached in an attitude of honest experiment, unprejudiced either way as to the incorporation of English ideas...
...Vagabond is fully conscious that anything he might say about Professor Copeland and the annual Christmas Reading would be entirely superfluous. Those who read this column will find some way to crowd into the Union Dining Room tonight not later than half past eight. For it goes without saying, even the most casual of the Vagabond's comaraderie will have discovered for himself that Copey is on the calendar today...
...Born into a good family of social standing and abundant means, he was educated at expensive private schools. At 15 he started a juvenile newspaper of which his father, James H. Reed, bought every copy as a method of suppression. Sent to Princeton, he once ran away, hoboed his way to Washington, returned to his studies chastened by the experience. Graduated from Princeton in 1900, he studied law at the University of Pittsburgh, was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1903, entered his father's law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay. The late Senator Knox, friend...
Approximately 60 men competed in the informal track meet held yesterday in the new cage. Coach E. L. Farrell appeared for the first time since his operation just as the meet was getting under way, and he was given a great ovation. A record number of 40 entries turned out for the 35-yard dash. This event was won by A. L. Warkins '31, in 4 2.5 seconds J. R. Hawes '32 and G. C. Kollmeyer '33 finished second and third respectively...