Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessity and humanity of this old-age provision for men who have given their best to education without sufficient pecuniary remuneration to provide for their own retirements scarcely needs further exposition. Nor do we need to dwell on the inconvenience, not to mention the cruelty of making professors with their families change their standards of living as soon as released from the active payroll. The fact, as has been accused, that professors live like nabobs, travel all over the world, and die without leaving a cent should not be invoked to show they could, if more provident, retire in comparative...
Wolf is the outstanding star of the visiting outfit and has acquired a reputation of being one of the best players in college circles. He won the New England intercollegiate title last year and seemed well on the road to repeat in the tournament this week when he defaulted...
Handicapped by the absence of its captain and best shot, M. M. Johnson 31, the University rifle team took fourth place in the Intercollegiate Service Rifle Match held at the United States Naval Academy last Saturday: The Navy team won the match with George Washington University shooting second and Virginia Military Institute third...
...three winning teams are ranked as the best in the country and have repeatedly won the rifle shoots during the last few years. This is Harvard's first real attempt for a long-time to get into the ranks of intercollegiate rifle teams. The sharpshooters have been holding practice during most of the year on the range at Arlington but bad weather, has prevented intensive work this spring...
Almost every event brought to light an unexpected point winner, a man who either bettered his previous best record or fell far behind it to the disappointment of his supporters. Nowhere was this more evident than in the dash events, where T. F. Mason '30 proved himself the hero of the afternoon. Having won the century in 10 flat over Stevens of Dartmouth, he found himself in the deciding furlong race the only Crimson survivor of the trial heats, pitted against five Hanover entries of whom three had been credited with faster times than himself. He needed a second...