Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every boy who wants it. Last fall we had five football games with Yale, this spring we are having eight crew races and four baseball games. In other words, we are extending to more students the privilege of meeting our rival, Yale. We have been able to accomplish this with the outdoor games because of the splendid facilities which are offered at Soldiers Field, the land behind the new Business School, Jarvis Field and the Boat Houses on the Charles River...
...Juneau when he made up his mind to see his niece (he is unmarried), Mary Catherine Thompson, graduated from Mills College, Oakland, Cal., last Monday. So he jumped into an Alaska Airways Lockheed-Vega and made the 1,800-mi. trip in 20½, hours, first air passenger to accomplish it in so short a time...
...themselves to be snobs. He would have them become snobs divested of all snobbery. They are to cultivate self-respect, but equally are they to show respect for the rights and the human feelings of others. This is a dual feat which no snob of past history has ever accomplished, or tried to accomplish. But Professor Roger's snob of the future should be able to compass it, because he is to be a snob in an altogether new sense of the word. He is bound to remember the superior advantages of training given him in college...
...Harvard undergraduates will dispute the contention that course examinations which require pure memorizing are of little permanent value. Nor will they deny that students can often accomplish more toward attaining a grasp of a given field of study through independent reading than through the fulfillment of an inelastic set of course requirements. The question which arises in connection with Mr. Fairbank's letter, printed else-where in these columns, is how far present conditions at Harvard over-emphasize course work and what benefits could be derived from a further reduction in course requirements--particularly those of Seniors...
Harvard has not defeated Yale on the New Haven track for 14 years, but Coach Farrell is not worried. He is not disturbed by the papers. He dopes his men to win; he figures what they must accomplish to do so; and he counts on their living up to expectations. His men are on the up-grade, but the bad weather of the past two days has interfered with the intensive training he had planned. Yale, on the other hand, reached the peak of its form last Saturday, and will not be hurt so much it this week's practice...