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...will be installed in the rambling gymnasium after the basketball season. Here many students, more paperweight than featherweight, will box, mimicking in miniature the giant punches of the champions who once battled there. Here too will box lusty footballers who later may lead teams at Wesleyan, Yale, Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hobby Hall | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...George Willets Davison was born at Rockville Center, Long Island, in 1872, graduated from Wesleyan (Phi' Beta Kappa) in 1892, received New York University LL. B. in 1894. In 1899 he was Queens County District Attorney; in 1900 served as secretary of a committee formed to revise the charter of Greater New York. He became Central Union's vice president at the time of the 1918 merger and in 1919 succeeded to the presidency upon the death of James N. Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Giannini-Blair | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Director of Athletics, and E. A. Wachter, University basketball mentor, will represent Harvard. As far as is known representatives from the following schools and colleges will also be present: Northeastern, Norwich, Vermont, Andover, Worcester, Tech, Trinity, Massachusetts Aggies, Milton, M. I. T., Amherst, Brown, New Hampshire, Holy Cross, Tufts, Wesleyan, and Rhode Island State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL CONFERENCE DRAWS TWENTY COACHES | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

...Wesleyan the audience voted in favor of the home team, which supported the affirmative of "Resolved, That this house deplores the large part that advertising plays in modern civilization." Wesleyan effectively opposed Harvard's claims that advertising is beneficial as an innovating influence, raises the standard of living, and is economically necessary. Representing the Crimson were D. I. Cooke '31 and S. G. Silverman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATE VALUE OF JURIES AND ADVERTISEMENTS | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Harvard's third debate in as many days is scheduled for tonight at 8.15 o'clock, when Brown is faced in Holden Chapel. The University debaters, upholding the affirmative of the same question as at Wesleyan, will consist of J. F. Harding '30, G. W. Harrington '30, and P. J. W. Bove '29. The speeches will be 15 minutes long, with the first affirmative man devoting five minutes of his time to a final rebuttal. The audience will render the decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATE VALUE OF JURIES AND ADVERTISEMENTS | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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