Cornell Loses Homecoming Game to Grinnell
Cornell closed the 1920 season with a 17 to 6 defeat by Grinnell before about 1500 fans. Macy's 35 yard drop kick gave Grinnell the first score, and Thompson later punched in a Grinnell TD. Cornell fought hard, and a late pass sequence set up a final score, but Grinnell's defense held. Captain Gowans was sidelined by injury.
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Cornell
Grinnell Pioneers
Macy
Grinnell
Thompson
L. Maxwell
Hoyle
Kepler
Ensign
O’neel
Fall Meeting of Cornell College Trustees Reviewed Flint Era
The Cornell college board of trustees met in fall session to review a five year record under President Flint and discuss reconstruction policies. Key topics included teachers salaries and a building program amid postwar conditions with several trustees and absences noted.
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Board of Trustees
Cornell College
Flint
J. E. Johnson
Boston
Chas. W. Flint
J. Harlan
R. F. Hurlburt
E. B. Willis
Armstrong Spear
W. H. Norton
W. GC. Stuckslager
Harry Dee
Mount Vernon
George G. Hunter
Des Moines
C. L. Voss
Denison
W. W. Carlton
Charles City
C. L. Rigby
Intercollegiate Debates Set for December 17 Trials
Friday, December 17 is the date for inter collegiate debate tryouts on the Esch Cummins railroad bill. Constructive speeches last six minutes with three minute rebuttals. Open to any man in four classes as vacancies appear, with Professor Himstead urging rapid preparation.
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Esch-Cummins
Himstead
Harriet Monroe Lectured Friday in Homecoming Week
About sixty attendees heard Harriet Monroe discuss the founding of Poetry in 1912 and the modern poetic renaissance. She highlighted influences from Oriental art Whistler Tagore Yeats and Synge and read her own poetry along with others. The talk spurred discussion while a tea in the Domestic Science Building followed.
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Harriet Monroe
Shelley
Byron
Swinburne
Whistler
Tagore
Yeats and
Synge
Tennyson
Miss Monroe
Masters
Sandsburg
Monroe
Alumnus Holds Senior YMCA Post in San Francisco
F A McCarl 99 serves as senior secretary of the Army and Navy Committee for the International YMCA with offices in San Francisco Rose Baker traveled to Ames for a readings event at the high school auditorium Gladys Madren 18 has become a reporter for the Des Moines Tribune
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F. A. McCarl
Army and Navy
International Committee of the
Young Men’s Christian Association
San Francisco
Gladys Madren
The
Des Moines Tribune
Cornell Freshmen and Varsity Prepare for Iowa Battle in January
The tale of basketball season opens as Cornell plans tryouts after Thanksgiving. Several veterans and freshmen return while key players like Lemon Hoadley and Kepler depart. First varsity call issued Monday. schedule includes a January opener against Iowa with last year’s 3-0 Cornell sweep at stake.
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Cornell
Iowa
Lemon
Sanderson
Hurlburt
Kepler
Hoadley
Fort Morgan
Colorado
Harvard
Chicago
Browning
Hegel
Ensign
Thompson
Dee
Miller
Isaacs
Gatewood
Kennedy
Lakey
Peterson
Paul Dee
Iowa University
Seniors Triumph in Campus Hockey Tourney Final
The weather cooperated as the Seniors defeated the Freshmen 11 to 2 in the final game, completing an undefeated run and showcasing sportsmanship. Key players included Schlue Groomes and Durno for the Freshmen, and Reeves Jordan and Lee for the Seniors, with captains Kidder Colee and Sherk praised for leadership.
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Frosh
Avery Rue
Cee Aeeae GE Staves
Wales L. Miller
Kidder
Durno Groomes
Mishler Krogh
Lee
Schlue and Groomes
Freshies
Durno
Colee
Sherk
Sophs
Old Cross Country Star Congratulates 1920 Team
Leonard D. Fackler, 15, former Cornell cross country star, writes a tribute to this year’s team noting their victory over Iowa university and fourth place in the Missouri Valley meet. He recalls his own 1912 fast time and admires modern runners.
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Leonard D. Fackler
Cornell
Cornellian
Iowa University
Tull
Cornell Mass Meeting Honors Athletic Alumni and Donates Sweaters
Eight hundred Cornellians gathered in the chapel for a mass meeting with speeches by Professor Herrick and coverage by alumni. The highlight was the donation of blankets and C sweaters to former athletes from 1918 to 1920 due to wool shortages, awarded by President Flint to players including Hartwell Grigsby Etter Smith Lemon Hedges Headley Sanderson Musselman and others.
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Cornell
Cornellians
Chapel
Flint
Herrick
Sweet Singers
Edwards
Bill” Nye
Des Moines Register
Warren Hartwell
Ralf Grigsby
Cotton -Etter
Ivan Hedges
Dewey Headley
Arlo Sanderson
Harold Musselman
Maynard Schell
Frank Day
Don Corlett
Herbert Temple
Harold Dee
George Bretnall
Russell Cole
Howard Zea
Boyd Thompson
Payson Peterson
Erritt Wins Home Cross Country Run
Erritt captured first place in the Saturday morning cross country race with a time of 27 18, leading five finishers including F Chapman second W Bieber third Taylor fourth and Walker fifth in a field of about 40 competitors.
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Erritt
F. Chapman
W. Bieber
Taylor
Walker
Famous men announced for Cornell lecture course 1920
The Cornell College lecture plan for 1920 21 opens next week with five programs. Vilhjalmur Stefansson will present an illustrated talk on My Five Years in the Arctic. Lorado Taft, the Chicago sculptor, may speak in January on sculpture and its history. John R. Mott of New York plans a winter visit after wartime duties.
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Cornell College
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Arctic
Stefansson
Lorado Taft
Chicago
America
John R. Mott
New York
All-Society Stunt Scores a Big Hit
Last Friday night the Homecoming program in the chapel featured a diverse all society stunt show. Acts included minstrels, hypnotism, a Japanese song, verse by a Cornellian, and various student groups such as Aletheans Prometheans Zetagatheans and Adelphs. The Parmenians forfeited and eight Romans performed Japanese Blossoms with a pianologue by Eleanor Bosserman.
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Merlin Sones
Harold Baltz
Day Newsom
Sherman Shaffer
Marian Menold
Rastus
Sally
Albian Taverner
Vera Cates
Thalian
an _ Irving
Kenneth Money
Eleanor Bosserman
Aesthesians
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Macy Mad
Grinnell’s
Gowans
Carnegie Foundation
U. Injan
Finger
Old Cross Country Star
Pep
Wilhjalmar Stefansson
Phidelah Rice
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