Word: barres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tinkering with new methods of manufacture. Higher education is a rapaciously competitive industry in which small colleges compete for teachers, students and money with big ones, State universities with private, city colleges with country. Threatening the whole established order of higher education are two radical, current experiments: Stringfellow Barr's St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., which has a fixed curriculum of 100 classics, and presidentless Black Mountain College in North Carolina, which has no required courses, seeks to promote learning mainly through art, music and dramatics...
...John L. Barr, Jr. '39, Captain...
Four men were taken from the Freshman second crew and four from the third Varsity this year; three of the oarsmen, A. Barr Comstock '40, stroke, John B. Reece '41, number seven, and Alexander H. Whitman '41, number five, were in the "Comby crew" last year, and pulled the same cars on the Third this year...
...LouisPaul D. Littlefield Emmy Nelley, Bronzville, N. Y.Richard S. Loomis Emily Hizzell, Suffield, Conn,John Lowell Kleanor Truinhull, WestonHarrinon F. Lyman Nancy Delano, WabanPeter MacGowan Joyce Russell, Beverly Hills, Cal.John McLaughlin Joanne Shanahan, SomervilleMalcolm P. McNair Elise Pickhardt, West NewtonWoodbridge Marshall Margery Wheeler, Pasadena, Cal.Allen W. Mathis Louise Barr, WorcesterAlton Meister Ruth Garlen, New YorkSanford Menter Rosalie Goldstein, New YorkAlan Miller Boris Sawyer, AndoverLawrence S. Munson Polly Saltonstall, SherbonLester J. Murphy Marjorie Pitten, BostonHomer S. Musgrave Nelly Frogus, Mount Lebanon, Pa.Walter Nichols Maclin Bococh, Williamsburg, Va.Oliver S. Oldman Alice Walker, Woodmere, N. Y.Myron Oppenheimer Harrict Wolfson, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.John Ordway...
Earlier in the morning, the third Varsity boat, stroked by Barr Comstock, earned a leg on the Stewards Cup by leaving the Union Boat Club nearly three lengths in the wake. And with an ample length of open water, the second 150 boat easily led the Pennsylvania crew in a four boat race...