Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relay, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Boston College were the starters. At the beginning of the first lap, Dartmouth took the pole, keeping it until the end. In the battle for second place, the Crimson first-year men were the winners, coming in about 15 yards behind Dartmouth and five yeards ahead of Boston College...
...interesting and the outcome of which is worth looking forward to. At Cambridge the undergraduates, facing mid-years, have since the Christmas vacation been "on their own," no classes having been held by the Faculty and the student body left to its own devices to pass the examinations just ahead. This hiatus is called a "reading period," and its purpose is to give the students a chance not only to catch up on the fast-flying regular work of the first term but to put in some real work in rather more than "preparing" for the tests to come...
Freedom of Learning Ahead...
...hole. He does not need four years to accomplish his purpose, and with their passage comes a feeling of futility, of irresponsible adolescence too long prolonged. Destined eventually for business, he sees the time of his apprenticeship, the time when he can earn enough to marry, pushed too far ahead by years of practical inaction. For him the junior college of Professor Mather is designed...
...superstition. On the other hand the new regime, consisting of a small minority of the population, is trying to infuse life with the most modern problem of politics. It is discouraging when you see what an enormous task the people have set themselves, because they are so far ahead of their times...