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...University of Ottawa hangs a crudely crayoned sign: "S'il vous plait-please-pas de bouteilles-no bottles-dans le-in the-gym." Students shout to each other in English, answer in French. Professors teach all courses in two languages. Everywhere on the campus of Canada's lone bilingual university le bilinguisme is casually accepted...
...Good Fight." The University of Ottawa, which had set out to bridge chasms of language and nationality, was born of a compromise. A century ago, Ottawa, known as Bytown, had a festering rivalry between Irish and French, and one lone Catholic school that catered to the Irish and ignored the French. A bilingual college would provide for both. As its founder, and the first Bishop of Bytown, Monsignor Joseph Eugene Bruno Guigues, put it: "These young men living and growing up together would soon come to know and to esteem each other, and while preserving their national idiosyncrasies, would learn...
Harvard's lone score, which came in the second period, resulted from a pass that was batted by an Indian defender into the arms of Crimson guard Bill Rosenau. The longest play of the game--a 37-yard heave from Dave Warden to Pete Leavitt--had put the ball on Dartmouth...
...summer to take advantage of Tom Dewey's pulling power. Plainly bored by Herbert's long-winded campaigning, many a Republican was listening to the impromptu, Lincoln-quoting speeches of Democrat Lausche, who had whipped the whole state machine to win the nomination, now was playing a lone hand with little mention of the rest of his ticket. His chances on Election day depended on the strength of an increasingly common curbstone comment: "I vote Republican but I'm going to cut over for Lausche...
Tenderfoot. In Spokane, Maxine Mayther was granted a divorce when she told the judge that her husband "thought the height of entertainment was listening to The Lone Ranger...