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...when it celebrated its 100th birthday as College of the Pacific, the oldest college in California was the model of a football foundry. For years, Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg had built teams that trounced the mighty universities of Chicago and California. By 1950, having climbed to tenth in the nation, Methodist-founded Pacific had progressed from stadiums seating 10,000 to 20,000 to 35,000-and into academic oblivion...
There he would be greeted with royal flattery by a bearded eminence whose own genius was that he was perfectly suited to his job and his times. Fields was a first-rate business man, a fourth-rate poet and a tenth-rate moralist. One of his poems, "The Ballad of the Tempest," is worth quoting: "We are lost!"-the Captain shouted, As he staggered down the stairs...
DeGuglielmo, who has announced that he will not run for a tenth term, said in an interview that the Council had taken many "good, progressive steps" but could have accomplished a lot more. "It's been a fight all the way," he said...
...College has given up all plans to construct the sorely-needed Tenth House on the Bennett St. MTA Yards, President Pusey confirmed yesterday...
Pusey indicated that overcrowding in the College is serious enough to force Harvard to look elsewhere for a site and begin construction of the Tenth House within the next few years...