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...fellowships for men not over twenty-five." These men are to be selected "upon evidence of remarkable promise"; they are to work with "a body of older fellows eminent in different fields" in "surroundings most adapted to entice and fructify the imagination." More notable, the holders of the three-year prize are to have no assigned task, to go through no routine research, but to engage in whatever study their intellectual curiosity leads them...
...played with Tom Shevlin and I think the world will never see a better end. . . . What a job . . . Pennock [did to us] in 1912. . . . Ticknor's performance last Saturday was superb, tremendous, but considering the three-year record . . . I played with Ted [Coy] and he was a marvel. He'd just run through them and the tacklers would fall aside, a lot of them with broken bones. . . . The greatest player I have ever seen? . . . Eddie Mahan. . . . The greatest Big Three team since 1904? . . . My 1923 team had a slight advantage over the others...
...resume relations is to unite them in a common cause which each can support without loss of dignity. Since 1927 there has been no football match between the U. S. Naval Academy and the U. S. Military Academy. Bone of contention was Navy's insistence upon the three-year rule (observed at all U. S. colleges) which requires that each player have no more than three years' college varsity football experience. Army's team has long had members who were previously outstanding on college teams. Last week it was announced that a service game would take place...
...Adelaide, Australia, there was even bigger news than Mr. Scullin's sunstroke. The three-year rain scarcity which has cursed South Australia with meagre grain crops suddenly gave way to what joyous editors headlined as "Splendid Rains...
...Dandy, owned by Chaffee Earl, 22-year-old son of a California fruit tycoon, at 100 to 1: the Travers (oldest U. S. stake) on a sodden track at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., soundly beating three-year old champion Gallant Fox, at i to 2, and Harry Payne Whitney's Whichone...