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...Harvard Dramatic Club yesterday turned over its finances to a Boston businessman in an effort to pull out of an estimated $4,000 debt...
Preacher Roe got a one run lead in the second inning and stood up under tremendous pressure to make it stick, as he gave the New York Yankees a 1 to 0 beating to pull the Brooklyn Dodgers even in the World Series at one game each...
...October 14th, an equally manpower-short Eliot squad takes on Leverett House; Eliot's coach is "discouraged by his small turnout," but figures that a bunch of sophomore newcomers may do much to pull his team through. Leverett's Bunnies have their entire 1948 backfield back, as does Adams House; the Gold Coasters'forward wall is one of the biggest in the league...
Teamed with socialite Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Juliana Force did as much as anyone to pull contemporary U.S. art out of the side streets of Greenwich Village and points east & west, place it in galleries where the public could see and admire it. For when Gertrude Whitney took a studio in the Village's MacDougal Alley in 1907, the plush offices of the Fifth Avenue art dealers were still cold to all but academicians. Museums would not look twice at the work of naturalist painters such as John Sloan and William Glackens, who were sneeringly referred...
...spirit of the code, which is pictured to them as an essential part of Stanford life. The code is enforced by a student court, which has often expelled students for cheating. One attitude expressed is, "Usually I'd try to see what I can get away with, but they pull this honor business on you and you're stuck." Coupled with the Honor Code is the Fundamental Standard, which says, "Students are expected to show both within and without the university such respect for order, morality, personal honor, and the rights of others as is demanded of good citizens...