Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flexibility in any athletic program is essential, as college interest in the world of sport rises and wanes at no predictable times and along no predictable lines. A few present hardships, however, must not be permitted to interfere with general good on a broad basis. The plan, it is believed, will form the second step, with the inauguration of the endowment plan considered as the first, toward "athletics for all" at Harvard...
Heated debates between liberals and conservatives arose Saturday when the Harvard-Radcliffe Congress on Legislation considered the committee reports on broad domestic and foreign issues...
High Jump--Won by C. H. Wood '41, 6 ft. (5 ft., 6 in.); Broad Jump--Won by N. J. Young '42, 21 ft., 8 1-4 in. (19 ft., 2 1-4 in.); Polo Vault--Won by S. Brooks '42, 14 ft. (11 ft., 6 in.); Shot Put--won by G. A. Downing '40, 48 ft., 6 1-2 in.; Javelin--Won by H. Kent '39, 169 ft., 4 in. (144 ft., 4 in.); Discus--Won by G. A. Downing '40, 127 ft., 7 in.; Hammer--Won by T. T. White...
...young Maharaja picked up 100 trunks full of souvenirs, including a ukulele and a 29-karat piece of the $1,000,000 Jonker diamond. He also picked up a cold in California. The nurse who took care of him while he had it was a broad-mouthed, brunette divorcee named Marguerite Lawler Branyen, who had been a nurse-stewardess on the Union Pacific R.R. In Switzerland in 1937 Indore's child bride died. Last week, in India, the Maharaja announced that, except for abdication, he had just followed the lead of his father and of Prince Edward, Duke...
There are types of scholarship which suffer no harm from being confined in an very tower which is furnished only with books or laboratory apparatus; there are others which are enriched by broad human sympathies and experience. Although a university lives within walls as a world apart, there must be perpetual commerce with the world outside in order that the university may both enlighten and be nourished by the civilization of its time and place...