Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finns are mainly concerned with marketing timber and with farming; as men of the soil their recreation has been limited to the simple, individualized exercise of track and field. The stoic, hardy peasants are well-adapted to this type of sport; many of them work all day and can train...
The Finns readily agree that their average athlete is neither mentally nor physically equipped for sprint or team sports. However, a good deal of soccer is played with moderate success, basketball has been introduced by touring American teams, and a Finnish variation of baseball is played largely in the country...
The hoopmen will assemble at 7:30 o'clock, while the pucksters meet tomorrow night at the same time. The third major winter sport, swimming, has been started earlier in the fall, and the mermen are working out daily in the Indoor Athletic Building pool.
He points out that "three-fourths of the 43 assistant professors (those whose terms expire in 1939 or 1940) have been or will be promoted," constituting "a permanent addition to the number of associate professors."
If their headmasters accept the new plan of provisional college admittance at the end of the Junior year, a lot of school boys will not have all the efforts of their senior year sucked towards the whirlpool of College Boards. Dean Gummere has long considered changes in Harvard's requirements...