Word: ursinus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...volunteers in schools and colleges all over the U.S. had answered her discreet little notes asking for help, placed in classical journals. A professor at Tulane University had made her a list of 8,000 Latin words which closely resemble the English. A teacher at Pennsylvania's Ursinus College had made a frequency count of Vergil's vocabulary. The chairman of the State University of Iowa's classics department, one of her associates, had made a frequency count of syntax forms. Miss Geweke had begun to write the lessons that would best prepare pupils for Vergil...
...first-year team the Cadets are coming here with a pretty fair record. Reasselaer Polytech, Ursinus, Lafayette, and Boston College have already fallen victim, with only Maryland having been able to take their measure. And this is their first year of varsity football...
...Dick Gilbert, who is expected to lead the attack, played in Madison Square Garden for a championship Duke University quintet. The tallest man on the squad, 6 foot 5 inch Bob Gottschling, was a starter for Manhattan College, while Jim Gallagher, an Irishman from Notre Dame, Bill Dearden from Ursinus, and Bill Bateman, a member of the 1943 Brown five, round out the crew of prospective high scorers...
...Flying Fortress with 13 men aboard smacked down on its belly 100 miles in land on the treacherous Greenland icecap. Balchen and young (32) Navy Lieut. Aram Parunak, a onetime Ursinus College football hero, teamed to try a rescue...