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...some Jews. But most of those with whom he has associated closely during four years at Harvard have held the same generally undefined religious attitude as himself. This is the year 1936. In the years when the great flower we know as Harvard was still a tight little Puritan bud there was an enforced unanimity or religious sentiment that we nowadays find difficult to understand. Man was damned, utterly completely horribly and Calvinistically damned, and there might be no mistake about it. Michael Wigglesworth, graduate, and tutor at Harvard in the middle seventeenth century, showed God's judgment...
...Crimson has come behind of tie the score on Dick Lewis' third period gole. Improved all round play, and especially by the inside forwards, was giving the home team a slight advantage coming down the stretch until Bud Morgan's winning Tiger tally came on a shot that bounded off the cross bar into the cage...
...September 30, Herbert Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of Hearst's New York Journal and Leo Kieran of the New York Times set off on the Hindenburg to race around the world on commercial airlines as a publicity stunt for their respective papers. Bad planning on the part of the Journal and Times, plus a couple of offside jumps by Reporter Ekins, soon put that World- Telegram man far in the lead. This week he completed the world trip in 18 days...
Nebraska kicked. Minnesota quarterback Bud Wilkinson caught the ball on his 25-yd. line, ran forward. Then, with the whole Nebraska team massed on the left side of the field to tackle him, he flipped the ball backward to left halfback Andy Uram. Uram streaked down the right side of the field. Before Nebraska had recovered from its surprise, he had scored the touchdown that won for Minnesota its 19th game in succession...
...eight went to an animal dealer to be sold as pets, six went to the New York Zoological Park, two were consigned to Germany as cargo on the Hindenburg. For each of the tawny, wide-eyed, prick-eared creatures with 'little bumps where the horns are beginning to bud, Rancher Belden collected $100. Clumping about Manhattan in his cowboy boots, ten-gallon hat, the short, jovial "Antelope King" remarked: "None of the fawns was airsick. Whenever they seemed to mind the heat, we just flew a thousand feet higher. The trip was a cinch...