Word: elie
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that had taken the Brown Freshmen and Hebron Academy over the bumps. Exeter, victor over the Crimson by a 12 to 0 count, set them back 20 to 7, and Andover, which the Yardlings trounced 20 to 0 for their only victory of the season so far, fought the Eli Cubs to a 7 to 7 deadlock...
...conceded much chance of providing the squad's more experienced oarsmen much competition, Curwen's shell, seated practically as it was last June at New London when it walked away from the Eli Freshmen, pushed colt Wagner's boatload to the very limit, as the two crews finished within inches of each other, well ahead of the other seven...
...when Army met Harvard in the opposing cheering sections, it was superb versus soporific, and the lessons are legion for Harvard. If the quality of the teams had been in proportion to the quality of their respective cheering support, "Jawn" would have suffered a gridiron catastrophe rivaling Old Eli's debacle of the previous week. If the yelling Cadets had been absent, Soldiers Field wouldn't have been as noisy as a thoroughly average Student Union meeting...
...Yale Daily News in solidly behind the stand taken yesterday by Ogden Miller, Eli director of Athletics, Richard Burr Tweedy, sports editor, announced last night...
Keynoter of the Mission is the world's No. 1 missionary, lean, fervid, greying E. (for Eli) Stanley Jones, who humbly calls himself "evangelist to the high castes of India." Dr. Jones went to India as a Methodist missionary in 1907, has since converted many a Brahman, written nine books (best-known: The Christ of the Indian Road, with sales past the 600,000 mark), founded at Lucknow the first Christian Ashram (from an Indian word meaning "a forest colony for spiritual fellowship and meditation"). In Indian costume-a long white cloak, tight trousers, sandals-Dr. Jones last summer...