Word: patting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside of a pat on the back from friends of the family and perhaps some recognition from other colleges whose praise means as little as that of his own, what does the campus king get when he leaves school? Usually the men for whom he wants to work have never heard of the Green Look Society, of the Back to the Campus Committee, or of the Alpha Kappa Beta Fraternity upon which he has lavished his time. The numerous council meetings which had to be attended on the nights that reports fell due, to the detriment of reports, are things...
Both coaches, Joseph Stubbs '20 and Holcombe York, who is completing his first year as mentor at Yale, will stand pat on their lineups. The game will be played under the American intercollegiate rules. If the teams are tied at the end of the regulation time no more than two overtime periods will be played to break the deadlock. If no score is made in this extra twenty minutes the game will remain...
Coach Stubbs intends to stand pat on his regular lineup, which has remained intact since the very beginning of the season and has carried the Crimson through to 12 victories and only one defeat. In the workout yesterday he stressed speed and timing, trying for perfection of the passing fame which has been Harvard's salient point all year...
Yale has been less prone to liberalize her curriculum than her contemporaries in the East. Whereas Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth have long since released capable students from compulsory class attendance and permitted wide freedom in choice of courses, Yale has stood pat to such a point that her onetime (1909-27) Dean Frederick Scheetz Jones was able once to boom forth: "So long as I am here we will never give up the Latin or Greek requirement for a degree in Yale College...
...midnight last week Chicago newshawks and photographers assembled in a bare room at the call of Chief Investigator Pat Roche of the State's Attorney's office. Before them was led a tall, thickset, wavy-haired young man named Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers. Investigator Roche proudly introduced him as the hired assassin of Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the racketeering Tribune crime reporter, who, while walking through a pedestrian's subway beneath famed Michigan Avenue, was plugged with one neat .32 bullet in his head head head (TIME, June 23). Chicago's best murder mystery of a decade...