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Coach "Buck" Walsh's first boat has six Juniors and two Sophomores. Because of the dearth of "N" winners in the present Senior class it was necessary to elect a Junior as captain. A. B. Yeats holds this position and rows at number six, while other "N" winners, G. A. Whiteside and V. E. Schumacher, row at five and stroke. These three rowed with last year's Varsity while the other three Juniors, P. G. Schultz at bow, J. L. Erickson at two, and G. C. Gullard at three are J. V. veterans. The two '39 representatives...
...that in 1930 General Flores da Cunha's Gauchos rode tumultuously into Rio de Janeiro, hitched their horses to the obelisk on bosky Avenida Rio Branco, bottled old President Washington Luis up in jail and helped Getulio Vargas become President of Brazil. Washington Luis and President-elect Julio Prestes were both from Sao Paulo which was then sorely handicapped by the collapse of the world coffee market and unable to fight back. Since most of Brazil's 20 States, which figure in the world market only with such specialties as cocoa, Brazil nuts or carnauba wax (phonograph records...
Light brown and neat as a pin, President-elect Clement is a lifetime Negro educator. He started as a professor, later became dean, at small Methodist Livingston College in Salisbury, N. C., where his late father George C. was Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion. When Louisville, to placate its 30,000 Negroes who were blocking a $1,000,000 bond issue for its Municipal University, opened a Municipal College for Negroes in 1931, Rufus Clement became its first dean. No high-powered intellectual like Fisk's James Weldon Johnson. Dr. Clement is esteemed among...
Before a record breaking turnout at the Annual Varsity Club Spring Luncheon yesterday, four major sport coaches predicted a bright future for their respective teams. In addition to these speeches captains Jim Gaffney, George Ford, Tom Bilodeau, Ed Bennett, Bill Schmidt, and captains-elect Rus Allen and Traf Hicks were introduced to the audience...
Although there is dispute as to just which is the number one governing board of the college, the fact that the Overseers have absolutely no initiative power seems to relegate them to second place. Also, the Corporation, unlike the larger body, are self-perpetuating; they may elect whom they choose, and members serve until they resign or die. At first this seems too exclusive, but it must be remembered that, with a group of only seven, the board must be friendly and be in the same walk of life to accomplish what they must...