Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boyce., Walker and Bencoe, captains of the Harvard, Yale, and Columbia foilsmen respectively, though expected to be Becker's chief opponents, failed to place. The captains of all the teams met on the first night and succeeded in eliminating each other effectively. None was strong enough to maintain a clean slate over the others and as a result each was credited with six or more defeats. E. L. Lane, by a plucky exhibition, fought his way to a tie for third place with Captain Hertzberg of Dartmouth. E. H. Lane, substituting for Brewster, started at a disadvantage, but managed...
...decided to institute a clean-up drive this week, and the object of the committee will be to approach everybody who has not yet been approached in regard to the fund. The slogan will be: "A contribution from every...
...training--"literature, science, history, and the knowledge of men", as opposed to absolute concentration in one intensive field. The danger in a single-track education can be well summed up in the words of a successful flood-engineer of the Middle West:--"I trained myself to go out and clean up my field, to make a million and then quit. I've got that now, but what am I going to do with it? I have absolutely nothing to fall back upon...
...will be meeting of the 1925 Finance Committee this evening at 7 o'clock in the Standish Hall Common Room. The drive conducted last week by the Committee for $4000 for the class fund, fell short by about $1000. The meeting tonight is for the purpose of organizing a clean-up drive, top start tomorrow, and last a week...
Under, the direction of Chairman Wadsworth, a clean-up drive will be instituted at a meeting of the Finance Committee in the Standish Hall Common Room on Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. This drive will begin the following day, and will last one week. The attention is to collect the rest of the $4000 quota...