Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University--"Paris Bound" and "Bulldog Drummond". Two of the best talkies to date...
Some of These Days", which Miss Tucker made for the Columbia firm some time ago, has been a best seller, and is still in some demand around Harvard Square. Her other similar records have met with responsive receptions at the time of issue...
...laid upon Harvard men for pleading guilty to the indictments of the Vassar Miscellany, quoted elsewhere in these columns. Coming from an institution so much less physical, it is not at all surprising that the sudden metamorphosis to Poughkeepsie life should daunt all but the boldest or best conditioned of males...
...eleven has tossed 24 passes, of which 18 were completed. Six of the seven touchdowns run up against the two opposing teams were scored through the air. John Shea seems to be the main spring of the Wildcat passing attack. He is generally conceded to be one of the best passers in New England college ranks and it is hoped that his sharpshooting will give the Crimson secondaries a severe test. When Cagle and the Army come to Cambridge a week later, Harvard's anti-aircraft guns should see plenty of service and any preliminary target practice will be found...
...result to the patient is little more than a confused state of mind. A galaxy of remedies ranging all the way from the Micklejohn experiment at Wisconsin to the House Plan at Yale and Harvard presents and array broad enough to convince the layman that all the best authorities are not agreed even to the point of diagnosis. But perhaps in the most recent recommendation -- that of Professor Henderson of Yale--there is a new note of direct action which may do something more than add to the mystery of the educational process...