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...June 9 and 14; the others with Yale, on June 19 and 20. If necessary the 5-5 tie with Princeton on April 19 will be played off. Winning all five of these possible game would give the Crimson an average of .750, enough to go into a three-fold tie for the championship of the League. The reason for this mathematical tie is that Cornell. Pennsylvania and Columbia all have scheduled encounters with this same bottom-place triumvirate of Yale, Dartmouth, and Princeton. If playoffs of postponed games don't upset this balance, the Mitchellmen have still at lest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY SLIDES INTO LEAGUE'S FOURTH SPOT | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...least one phase of the three-fold Curtis empire-the cultural-Brothers Curtis & Gary are walling, earnest heirs. Gary is an officer of the Curtis Institute, as is Curtis who is vice president of the orchestra association. Also Curtis heads, as president, the social Philadelphia Forum (lectures, dances, music) and sits on the Committee of Seventy for political reform. Professionally the destiny of the Curtis regime is difficult to read. Brother Gary is training himself for technical command but it may well be the voice of Brother Curtis that is some day heard speaking his politico-social creed through their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After Curtis | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

...East is very delicate. Since Japan began its offensive in Manchuria, the American policy has been motivated by determination to support the various treaties of peace, like the Kellogg Pact, to defend American interests; to avoid war. It has not always been easy to hold fast to this three-fold purpose, but all three angles were important. Not one must be forgotten. Mr. Roosevelt has expressed approval of what has been done so far. It will be very wise to continue this policy because it is based on respect for treaties, is a policy of peace and has the understanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASTLE HOPES FOR SANE GOVERNMENT FROM DEMOCRATS | 3/2/1933 | See Source »

...weakness in order to make an exception of the other far more fatal weakness, the low social standards of certain leaders of public utility finance?is the superstructure of the holding company and of the so-called investment company which in turn controls that holding company. . . . The change is three-fold and may be characterized by ... irrational consolidation. overcapitalization and uncontrolled service charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shaken Empire | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

What the members of this Order wear is a modified Dominican habit. This consists of a tunic, fastened with a black girdle (having three knots at the ends, signifying the three-fold vows of poverty, chastity and obedience), a scapulary, and over all a mantle and hood. The indoor habit (with the exception of the girdle) is white. When a monk leaves the monastery he wears the outdoor habit, which is the same, save that its color is black. In cool weather he wears also a black cloak, and a black "fried-egg" hat, more common amongst English clergymen than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

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