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Chalked up on the blackboard outside the Varsity locker room after Saturday's 20-18 victory over Holy Cross was the following score: "Princeton 55, Virginia 14." Art Valpey's players had a good chance to look at it as they trooped into the showers after the game...
...foreign policy required leadership. It was achieved by men-Republicans as well as Democrats-who were willing to fight for principles before these principles became obvious to everyone. It was not achieved by the people who copied the answers down neatly after the teacher had written them; on the blackboard...
...Blackboard Scholars. The resulting speech was Truman's best since his acceptance speech in Philadelphia. For the first time, Truman plunged boldly into foreign policy. Said he: "Unity . . . cannot be produced by mealy-mouthed political speeches. Unity on great issues comes only when the voice of the people has been heard so clearly, so strongly, so unmistakably that no one . . . can doubt what the people mean . . . We did not have unity in foreign policy in 1940 . . . The Republican leaders were mainly isolationists...
...first games come after two weeks of more or less intensive conditioning. Two hundred-odd candidates for the eight teams have been put through conditioning and signal drills in an attempt to reduce the chances of injuries in the usually ragged games; and each unit has undergone considerable blackboard work...
Nobody knows what kind of magic Valpey has up his sleeve or on the blackboard in Dillon Field House, but already an exceptionally large amount of opening game tickets have been sold to the faithful, loyal, and merely curious for tomorrow's contest...