Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Displaying a whirlwind attack early in the game, the Freshman basketball team wound up its home season yesterday afternoon in the Freshman Gymnasium, winning from the St. George's quintet by a score of 23 to 13, and is now pointing for its annual tilt with Yale next Saturday at New Haven. Robert Dutton '31 led the attack with five baskets to his credit, while O. D. Johnson '31, who scored nine points, was the next high scorer. The 1931 aggregation led at the half by a 13 to 6 count...
...tradition and custom in many of our schools. But if any progress is to be made in improving the present system, it must be by the elimination of just such deep-set evils. President Lowell has rendered valuable service to the cause of American education by his penetrating attack on them...
...their opponents' 4. Of the latter figure, two were accounted for by the Dartmouth freshmen. In entering upon the final contest undefeated the Freshmen have duplicated the feat of the 1927, 1928, and 1929 sextets. The 1980 men, led by R. L. Summers '30 working together in a fast attack with C. R. Lakin '30, met defeat at the hands of Captain "Ding" Palmer's Blue team of last year, breaking the succession of three years' triumphs. Both the Dartmouth and Princeton freshmen have met defeat at the hands of the Yale team. McLennan, right wing, and Nelson, center...
...University quintet decisively repulsed the invading contingent from the Pine tree state in Hemenway gymnasium last night with a score of 53 to 25. A good passing attack gave Harvard an early lead. At the end of the half the score stood 32 to 10. With this lead many men were used to finish the game, piling up a lead on the weakening University of Maine forces...
That subject of perennial attack, the American educational system, is assailed anew in a series of articles in the current New Republic, entitled "Adult Education", with a zeal so Menckenesque that it seems almost homesick away from the more familiar pages of the Mercury. Witness this description of the sad fate of the products of the present system: "Most Americans seem to have reached mental old age at the age of thirty. They reflect in stereotypes; they converse in slogans; their thinking is reiteration, and their action consequently--violence." The remedy, say these critics, lies in continuing the educational process...