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...victory over Harvard will leave Springfield in virtual possession of the New England league championship, as Yale, the other undefeated team, was beaten by Wesleyan Tuesday as well as being tied by Amherst last week. Springfield plays no more tough games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Face Undefeated Springfield Squad Today | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

...Cornell 20 Ohio State 14 Fordham 7 Pitt 6 Notre Dame 13 Carnegie Tech 0 N.Y.U. 14 Georgia 0 North Carolina 13 Penn 7 Northwestern 16 Illinois 6 U.S.C. 20 California 0 Tennessee 46 Mercer 0 Chicago 61 Opendate 0 Boston College 20 St. Anselm 0 Amherst 20 Wesleyan 0 Holy Cross 20 Colgate 7 Texas A. & M. 20 Baylor 0 L.S.U. 21 Vanderbilt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Predictions | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

Dartmouth does not have an extremely good team. They, like Harvard, have lost to Williams 3 to 2, as well as to the league leaders, Springfield and Wesleyan, by one goal margins, and they have beaten M.I.T. 3 to 1 and Massachusetts State 6 to 1. But one man, Eckhart, is responsible for more than half of their goals, standing second in the New England league standings with eight points to his credit. The game this afternoon is likely to resolve itself into a contest of Eckhart vs. Harvard...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...began his academic career as a country schoolteacher, dispensing all knowledge in the rural scholastic grab bag and performing as janitor to boot. Born during the Civil War in Waldo, Ohio, son of a country doctor, he almost entered the Methodist ministry but plumped for science instead. Ohio Wesleyan gave him his A.B. and A.M., Johns Hopkins his Ph.D. After teaching biology for 20 years at Ohio Wesleyan and elsewhere, he was summoned to Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...begin to tinker with machinery and at night read him newspaper articles about the flight experiments of Chanute and Lilienthal. She was just as pleased when he made himself an expert mechanic by working in a garage as she was when he studied business at Kansas Wesleyan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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