Word: illini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same field where famed Red Grange scored five touchdowns against Michigan 15 years ago, an Illinois team, smarting under Michigan's Coach Crisler's recent boast that Tom Harmon is a greater back than Grange, made Crisler eat crow. Playing inspired football, Bob Zuppke's Illini, who had not won a game this season, bottled Harmon so tightly that he scored only one touchdown, toppled mighty Michigan from the undefeated ranks...
...Hearst prize at a Chicago Art Institute exhibit in 1935, because Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum bought and hung his End of the Hunt, because he is a two-fisted advocate of "beauty" v. "ugliness" in art, last summer appointed him for one year, first art apostle to the Illini under a five-year Carnegie Foundation grant...
When great Finnish Composer Sibelius' Fifth and Sixth Symphonies got their first Chicago hearings, it was not the venerable Chicago Symphony but the sprouting Illinois Symphony that played them. The Illini played few symphonic chestnuts, never repeated a composition. By the end of last season they were giving even more "first performances" than Serge Kousse-vitzky's pioneering Boston Symphony. Some of their firsts were imported, some domestic. Last week they played their hundredth composition by a U. S. composer...
Making its way around U. S. campuses like the spark in a sputtering fuse, the venereal disease crusade arrived last week at Harvard. In a cool, impersonal manner that contrasted with the boisterous brothel-photographing and madame-interviewing technique of University of Illinois' Daily Illini (TIME, Nov. 1), Harvard's oldest publication, the Harvard Advocate, presented an article on Sex by the Yard with the co-operation of the university's hygiene department. Salient facts...