Word: ticknor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Book Center. Its informality would breed friendship rather than contempt. Before long it would become the undergraduate center; debates, talks, and bull sessions would take place there. College students would be in fruitful contact with Harvard not two but twenty hours a day. No longer could George Ticknor's ghost say that "In Cambridge, the library is one of the last things thought and talked about...
...odds of 9-4 have been given on Princeton. Baltimore is for Harvard, judging from the wire read to yesterday's rally from Harvard's all-time football ace, W. Barry Wood '31. "I saw Princeton play Navy last Saturday," wired Wood, "Harvard will win." All-American center Bon Ticknor also wired victory...
...Wood, Ticknor Send Wires...
Harvard's two recent all-Americans, quarterback W. Barry Wood '32 and center Benjamin H. Ticknor '31 were invited to address the gathering. Unable to appear in person, however, both the legendary scholar-athlete and the all-time greatest center have sent telegrams which will be read to the meeting...
Harvard has not subdued the Big Green since a field goal and a touchdown did the trick for Captain Ben Ticknor's eleven in 1932, score 10-7. After a 7-7 tie in 1933, the Crimson have bowed respectively 10-0, 14-6, 26-7, and 20-2. Dartmouth, on the other hand, very carelessly dropped a 7-0 decision to Holy Cross early in the 1936 campaign but has managed to make up for this lapse fairly well, except of course for a few ties, two of which, Yale and Cornell, came last year...