Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's naval disarmament plan was aimed at the three cruisers is another question. "Big Navy" men in Congress insisted that the U. S. could go ahead and build these ships without any fear of having them scrapped, because the U. S. was already far behind Great Britain and Japan in cruiser strength.- The appropriation to start construction of these three cruisers had already passed the Senate (TIME, Feb. 14) after being rejected in the House; had gone to conference. Before the President's proposal last week, it seemed certain that the House would agree to the Senate...
Making the most of his 25 yard handicap, J. S. Flaksman '29 tonight won the one mile race in the games of the Portland American Legion, in the time of 4 minutes, 29 and four-fifths seconds. Close behind him ran Reed with a 15 yard handicap, while Haggerty, University Captain starting from scratch came in third...
...handicap sprint event, at 40 yards, Francis Hussey of Boston College running from scratch, won his major victory of the year. The former Stuyvesant High School and Olympic sensation had little difficulty to bursting past his rivals. Lundell, veteran Crimson sprinter, came in third immediately behind Morrill of Boston University...
...Juniors the remainder being eliminated on both competitive and comparative standards. These figures are not so startling as they might at first appear for an examination of the present enrolment at Harvard shows that the Freshman Class numbers 950, and the Senior Class just under 600. Nevertheless the spirit behind the suggestion is unmistakable. What Oregon is probably forced only to recommend because of the limitations of her state charter and what Professor Root wishes is the transformation of the first two years of the college course into an elimination contest with highly limited enrolment in the latter two years...
...reasoning behind such a development runs somewhat as follows: Tutorial systems are expensive. They require larger endowments than the average college is willing or able to obtain. They are therefore re-named Honors courses, narrowly limited in number to the highest grade students. The bulk of the undergraduate body continues under the old plan. Against this stabling together of the old with the new arise two different protests. John H. McDill writes to the Yale Daily News advocating "an enlarged system of honors", through which "More than the present limited few undergraduates would be enabled to engage in serious, intensive...