Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Phillips Finlay '31 and Captain J. W. Filoons '29 turned in the best individual cards in the University match, both getting 74. The Exeter team, which is undefeated this season, lost only one match...
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However, on the basis of past performances, Yale has the better team. Headed by Captain Brandenburg who is credited with a discus throw of 15 feet further than the best throw of T. H. Alcock '29, the Eli squad presents an imposing array of talent; Kieselhorst and Engle in the runs, Connor and O'Gorman in the weight events, and Sturdy and Pond in the pole vault, are the outstanding luminaries of the team, and have an excellent chance of hanging up some dual records in their particular events...
...event, while Stewart of Yale, Alcock, and Vonckx will fight for the other places. Weicker and Brandenburg are conceded the discus while the shot put seems close, with O'Gorman of Yale favored on past performances. Wolf, Yale, is favored in the high jump, while French and Rowe seem best in the broad jump. Yale Daily News...
...introductory surveys to a general or to a special field, for the orientation of the student. But if one admits the desirability of working for understanding of a field, then courses other than these introductory surveys, seem a hindrance. Seniors, if they are not assumed to be robots, has best go their own gait, using lectures, books, and discussions for one general end according to their individual capacity,--not for several unintegrated courses along the way. The tutorial system, in other words, still seems to be superimposed, to integrate the course system; whereas ideally the course system should merely supplement...