Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vernon Struck fullback, and Art Oakes and Bob Stuart the halfbacks. Boston is a power on defense, a mauling blocking back, a spine crackling line bucker. Oakes' speciality is hurling passes. Stuart and Struck will alternate on most of the running, Stuart being perhaps the more clusive, Struck the better faker...
...worst features of this unhealthy and undignified competition for students, Tunis continues, is that many of the smaller colleges now are developing for better sales forces than teaching staffs. Nearly all have "recruiting agents," or "Directors of personnel" who receive flat commissions on each student brought in. Often small scholarships are offered as an inducement to get the student into the college and then bills are sent in for extra fees which exactly make up the amount of the scholarship...
Last January it was announced that Phillips Brooks House was considering the appointment of a personnel officer, to cope with some of the problems presented by mal-adjusted students. In May the appointment of Shafer Williams '32, a graduate divinity student was announced, and in order better to acquaint students, new and old with the work of this office, the CRIMSON publishes the following article, gathered from official sources in Phillips Brooks House...
...freshmen we were lost in a welter of names and faces which we were totally unable to associate. As a consequence the Redbook board last year decided upon a supplementary issue which made the members of the class of '40 far better able to recognize their fellow men than were their predecessor. But again there will be a reshuffling, and again the job of linking names and faces will arise. Hence this letter and suggestion...
...Southerners are sure that, within the narrow limits they allow, they understand the Negro better than Northerners do. To Northerners the Negro is not a social problem but a minor, hardly noticeable industrial phenomenon. Nevertheless, even dyed-in-the-wool descendants of Lincoln's emancipators sometimes find it a socially embarrassing experience to encounter the emancipated Negro, whether in Harlem or between the covers of a book. Southerners would simply disregard the equalitarian gropings implicit in such novels as These Low Grounds and Their Eyes Were Watching God; Northerners might well find in them some indigestible food for thought...