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...Liberal Club educators fear that "too intent a search for the all-round boy may well lead to the development of a Harvard type". The very word "type" is antithetical to all-rounded-ness, implying some degree of one-sided development...
Boston University's all-round play proved superior to the brand of ball offered by the University nine on Soldiers Field Saturday, and the Crimson diamond schedule started with an 8 to 6 verdict for the invaders. Six errors largely off set the fair hurling of Barbee, 1928 mound ace, who officiated for eight innings, and held the Terriers to seven safe blows. Only seven hits were made by the Crimson artillery, and these were supplemented by only two B. U. miscues...
...would gloat over your Quiz. Another big percentage, denied sufficient time in their educational years to get what the Quiz practically supplies, would be able positively to lift themselves by their boot straps. Yet it seems to me (a three-score-and-ten-year man, generally placed in the all-round category) somehow out of place or not dovetailing in with your plan and scope...
...instructing in a Florida school. Since landing, Hoff has done some running on indoor tracks that was anything but slouchy. Last week Hoff bethought himself of Osborne's talk and called him out to meet him, at the Knights of Columbus games in Manhattan next month, in an all-round athletic duel. Sportdom awaited Teacher Osborne's reply, hoping much that the joust might be but realizing the obligations that are a pedagog...
...Manhattan, Swedes proudly recalled that Crown Prince Gustaf is an excellent all-round athlete, an amateur archeologist of considerable practical ability, a tolerable singer and a vigorous champion of religious culture. His younger brother, the dramastist-poet Prince William, Duke of Sodermanland, is perhaps better known abroad (TIME, Oct. 19). But the activities of Crown Prince Gustaf, in connection with the World Church Conference at Stockholm (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq), his archeological excavations on the site of ancient Asine, and his work as a member of the Swedish Olympic Committee, have attracted considerable quiet notice. His most widely bruited...