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...Colgate, the manager of the team figured out that it cost $110.05 to equip each member of a squad of 50 ... Columbia, planning to "resume athletic relations" with Dartmouth, was trying to build a backfield around a lone veteran called Kumpf . . . Dartmouth would have last year's stars, Captain Black and Alton Marsters . . . Roper of Princeton, who is at his best with raw beef, had a squad with many lettermen . . . three Harvard backs were severely injured in practice . . Captain Donn Greenshields of Penn State was in bed, recovering from pneumonia . . . Knute Rockne, famed Notre Dame coach and journalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...know at a glance only an expert factory girls' fingers could have tied it. But then she might have been his girl; who can tell. The coat and pants have a brother in the closet, but there just wasn't room to show both pair at once. The three lone buttons on the coat show the Yale influence. They also do away with the necessity of a vest. Shoes are brown with very light saddles; the last word in college nattiness. But the men who labor for the good Felix may mix up the colors a bit. Of socks...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: What The Freshman is Wearing The Smooth Lad. | 9/22/1928 | See Source »

...honor of the Spaniard is based on pure subjective passion, the pathos of the lone individual. ... Self-help alone appeals to him as being both sensible and justified. ... The impartial judge who in cold blood sentences to death ... must in the eyes of the Spaniard rank lower than the murderer. ... Spain belongs not to Europe but to Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS ABROAD: Keyserling's Europe* | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...lone survivor of the advance guard is Thomas Taggart, 71, of Indiana. It was Taggart, Murphy and Brennan (acting on deathbed instructions from Sullivan) who pushed aside McAdoo and forced the nomination of Cox at the Democratic convention in 1920. The same forces compromised on John W. Davis in 1924, when the Smith movement failed. Mr. Taggart is now in ill health and resides quietly at French Lick, Ind., playing croquet with his grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of Brennan | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...opened in Amsterdam's red brick stadium in the presence of Prince Consort Henry and Master of Ceremonies Baron A. Schimmelpenninck Van der Oye of Doorn. There was a parade of 44 nations, 4,250 athletes, beginning with the Greeks and continuing alphabetically. Cuba was represented by a lone white man; Haiti by a lone Negro. Egyptians wore red fezzes; the rest walked in white pants and blue coats. The U. S. delegation, largest of all, received one of the smallest cheers. A crowd of 40,000 packed the stadium; 75,000 would have paid to get inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Olympics | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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