Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kirkland scored all of its points in the first half, partly because of inaccurate Dudley passing which led to frequent interceptions. Jack McClure and Earl Foster scored on line plunges to ring up the first two Deacon tallies...
...Foster counted again a few moments later when he downed a kickoff in the Commuter end zone, Moore put the cover on with an 80 yard runback of an interception. The offense of neither team was outstanding until the last quarter, when Bullet Joe Kaufman ripped through the Kirkland line for goodsized gains...
Since 192 men have indicated their interest in inter-House debating, and since the aims of the plan are, according to Ebb, "to foster intellectual activity in the Houses... primarily in the field of the social sciences," the University funds are forthcoming, it is reported, because of President Conant's active interest...
...Stephen Foster, U. S. composer of the song Way Down upon the Swanee River (properly called Old Folks at Home), had never seen Florida's Suwannee River about which his song was written, got the misspelled name from an old map. Once the song was written it was impossible to correct the spelling, because the tune calls for a word of two syllables, and the real Suwannee has three...
SUWANNEE RIVER-Cecile Hulse Matschat-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Best of the Rivers of America series (previous volumes: Kennebec, Upper Mississippi) Suwannee River more than lives up to its folk-song fame. (Although Stephen Foster never saw the Suwannee, a stone to his memory stands at its source.) Author Matschat describes the primitive, fantastic swamp country of Georgia and Florida, the swamp folk and their legends, like a naturalist with poetic imagination...