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...Harvard Debating Council Plan, although there was a substantial vote in their favor. At Loyola University debating "Complete Disarmament" the two judges split and the deciding vote was left to the audience. Ballots for this poll are still coming in, and as yet no result has been reached. Alonzo Stagg, Chicago football coach was there to ask about the efficiency of the plan. Since Rockford College is solely for women the Harvard speakers matched arguments with a team of women in a no-decision encounter...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, athletic director at the University of Chicago: "Since Prohibition hundreds of thousands more children have had a fairer start in life than before. The saloons were our substitutes for the movies, the theatres, the motor car, the radio, the seashore, reading and all. ... I can state with absolute confidence that drinking is not a problem at the U. of C., that only a very small percentage of the students drink...
Between the halves Coach Alonzo Stagg said something to his son, Quarterback Paul Stagg. When the Chicago team came out for the third period it moved smoothly down the field for one touchdown, then raced widely for another. Top-heavy Tigers obeyed as well as they could Coach Roper's furious "Get-the-hell-in-there-and-fight!" Chicago 15, Princeton...
Marianne (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the most lamentable consequences of the singing pictures is Marion Davies. Here she is as a French girl in love with Stagg* of the A. E. F. One of the ablest clowns in the cinema she is forced to be sentimental. A skillful pantomimic, she has to talk continually, even sing. Unalterably Irish-American she wears peasant clothes and expresses herself in a language consisting of U. S. baby-talk combined with the foreign word cheri. A French soldier who has gone blind is the dramatic obstruction in her affair with Stagg. Best shot...
...game." Said Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Kansas University athletic director: "It is a good rule." The pros listed among their number Dr. Clarence Wiley Spears (Minnesota), Ossie Solem (Drake), Tad Jones (Yale), Cleo O'Donnell (Holy Cross), Ira Rodgers (West Virginia), Bob Zuppke (Illinois). The cons included Amos Alonzo Stagg (Chicago), Dick Hanley (Northwestern), Glenn Thistlethwaite (Wisconsin), Dr. Frank W. Cavanaugh (Fordham...