Cornell Cagers Begin Practice for Big Season
Coach Judd Dean leads Cornell basketball drills as 15 games loom eight conference tests on the schedule. The team opens Friday night December 14 against Iowa State Teachers on home court and plans a winter in Mount Vernon before a late December clash with Minnesota. Conference play starts January 12 at Beloit versus Blue Devils, with Simpson and Carroll College to follow. Six lettermen on roster.
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Iowa State
Cornellians
Mount Vernon
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Big Ten
Class Basketball Opens Intramurals On December 15
The 1928 29 intramural program starts with class basketball practice for juniors and sophomores on Mondays and Wednesdays 1 to 2 pm seniors and freshmen on Tuesdays and Thursdays. All four classes gain access to the main floor Fridays during practice hours. Howard Woodruff seeks volunteers including a junior assistant manager for next year.
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Cornellian
Howard Woodruff
Bradley Falls to Bradley Tech in Season Finale
The 1928 football season closed with Cornell losing 32 to 13 to Bradley Tech on Thanksgiving Day. Cornell showed a strong offense with 19 first downs to 13 for Tech, scoring each quarter. Pedersen and Elness led a late surge, but Tech held firm as Bradley extended its lead.
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Miguel Reynolds
Bradley Tech
Cornellians
Techmen
Bradley
Cornell
Cook
Crabtree
Purple
Indians
Elness
Pedersen
West Branch
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Senior Woman Gains Ideas on Chicago Factory System
Miss Serena Howard joins a group of college girls interning with the YWCA in Chicago. She recalls the harsh search for work, cramped room at Mary Dawes Hotel, and eventual luck at a lamp shade factory after long miles through the central manufacturing district.
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Chicago
Opal Lybarger
Serena Howard
Mary Dawes
A A W Play Well Presented To Large Crowd
Holiday amusement seekers enjoyed the A A U W annual scholarship benefit comedy Is Zat So. A strong cast under W Earl Beem delivered a skillful performance with notable turns by Karl Weiss Eddie Cowan and D A Van Metre. Supporting actors Richard Barker Judd Dean Teel and Gerald Hill contributed solidly as the tale unfolded before a Cornell audience.
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Mary Parsons
W. Earl-Beem
Karl Weiss
Cornell
Id. A. van Metre
Eddie
Chick
Iowa U Students to Come Friday Dinner Tonight
Over fifty State University of Iowa students visit Cornell College for a goodwill dinner in Iowa City. About twenty Cornell students have claimed spots. fifty at most will attend with seventy cents charged to each Cornell student.
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State University of Iowa
Cornell
Wesleyan Foundation
State University
Cornell College
Iowa City
Art
Beth Wallis
Howard Woodruff
Mildred Mastin
C. G. Fort
Sidney L. Chandler
Methodist
Four Seniors Initiated Into Phi Beta Kappa at Cornell Delta of Iowa
Four seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa were formally initiated in Cornell's chapter Delta of Iowa yesterday afternoon. Helen Wisgerhof Jean Saul Richmond Anderson and Miguel Reynolds are named among those inducted.
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Helen Wisgerhof
Jean Saul Richmond Anderson
Miguel Reynolds
Phi Beta Kappa
Cornell
Delta of Iowa
Cornell Debates Sydney Thursday on Unwomanly Woman
The Sydney University team and Cornell debate in Chapel Auditorium next Thursday at 8 p.m. on the topic that the modern young woman is unwomanly. Cornell takes the negative. Sydney’s team H. G. Godsall W. S. Sheldon and N. C. L. Nelson arrived in October and toured the U.S. in 1926 and 1927 debating nine questions.
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University of Sydney
Sydney
Australia
Cornell
Chapel Auditorium
H. G. Godsall
W. S. Sheldon
N.C
Union
Blackacre
S. U. Law Society
Hermes
Godsall
Cornell Athletes Awarded Letters for Season Work
At a Cornell athletic committee meeting 53 varsity and freshman football men and cross country runners received letters and numerals for their seasons in two sports. Kirby Cook of Blair Nebraska named captain elect of the 1929 football team. eighteen football players won major C awards. Freshmen on the cross country yearling team earned the 82 numeral.
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Cornell Athletic Committee
Kirby Cook
Blair
Nebraska
Footall
Lettermen
Grid
Cook
Barkermen
Midwest
Paul Scott
West Liberty
Wallace McCullen
Miller
South Dakota
Verne McGrath
Roy Crabtree
Clarion
Russell Erickson
Stanley Hribal
Rockford
Ilinois
John Schenken
Marion
Arnold Pedersen
West Branch
Burton O’connor
Newton
Wilbur White
Rhodes
Arthur Kindred
Clinton
Orville Welzel
Postville
Siegfried Tesch
Osage
Wayne Hunter
Amel Bresson
Mount Vernon
Gale Allen
Ames
Guy Shinn
Cedar Rapids
James Corlett
Farmersburg
Charles Thorpe
Milledgeville
Illinois
Harnest Ladd
Bruce Riley
Goldfield
Robert Swaney
Oak Park
Ilinoia
C C A Bazaar To Be Held This Weekend
The C C A will stage its annual Japanese Bazaar in the Y M room on Friday and Saturday December 7 and 8. Tiny silken purses brass candle sticks carved ivory beads and other odd articles from See Dey Japan will be sold with many gifts for ten fifteen and twenty five cents. Higher priced items including oriental leather purses carved ivory medallions and mother of pearl beads will range from fifty cents to three dollars making charming gifts for closer friends. The bazaar offers affordable options for students and their mothers sisters and friends.
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Dey
Japan
Y. M
Being From Chicago A Pilot’s Bold Bombing Plan
A Chicago born major in the Air Corps recalls a daring mission plan with DuBois to strike Wilhelm and Hindenburg near the German front. The scheme relies on two planes, a magnesium bombing run, and a night dive to illuminate the target before a follow up bomber obliterates a chateau. The narrator hesitates then commits to the hazardous idea.
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DuBois
Wilhelm
Hindenburg
High Command
Kingdom-Come
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Judd Dean
Scotty
Hribal
Scott
Purple Warriors
Iowa U
Barker
Harriers
Doc
Bart
Germany
Air Corps
Intelligence Department
Marsh
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