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...Bronx Cheer...
...York City's Fordham University set up shop as a small Roman Catholic college called St. John's, on Rose Hill in The Bronx. A few years later, New York State gave the school twelve muskets for protection against threatened attacks by anti-Catholic Know-Nothings. The antique weaponry was a good symbol of the old Ford-ham-primarily a school for the children of Irish and Italian immigrants, as much concerned with preserving their faith against the forces of secularism as with promoting academic excellence...
...sooner had Minnesota lent Kamisar to Harvard as a visiting professor in 1964, than the University of Michigan hired him for the year after. No matter. Like a Bronx Socrates, he harangues entranced students in thunderous tones that surely reach all three campuses. Kamisar has two passions: "translating" how Supreme Court decisions affect all Americans' liberties-and blasting polemicists who accuse the court of "coddling criminals." A dangerous counterpuncher in any argument, Kamisar plays no favorites: he has fought American Law Institute conservatives who sought tough model rules of police questioning, while he "gags" at Supreme Court Justices...
...BRONX, N.Y., Friday, November 4--The Harvard cross-country team's impressive late season surge carried it to second place behind Navy in the Heptagonal Championship at Van Cortlandt Park here today. Navy had five finishers among the first 13, including winner Buzz Lawlor, in a convincing show of superiority. But Harvard coach Bill McCurdy and his team had plenty to gloat about...
Tobin was first taken to the Misericordia Hospital and then transferred to Jacobi Hospital, also in the Bronx. His condition was diagnosed as severe internal bleeding...