Word: combated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Student Council, at its meeting on of taking steps to combat not only misinformation of the schools concerning the University, but also a certain amount of misrepresentation which has been noticeable in the past. The meeting tonight is hoped to bring out workable suggestions for the committee to be guided by in combatting this evil without incurring the charge of propagandizing...
...recent growth of an unfavorable attitude toward Harvard at Exeter and Andover, and the low esteem, in which Harvard is held throughout the west have caused considerable comment and discussion as to why these conditions exist. The University has done much to combat the situation by modifying the entrance requirements and breaking down, by sane publicity, the barrier of misunderstanding which is keeping away many desirable students from other parts of the country. Problems that naturally arise in this connection awaken in turn a train of further questions, but may be classed in general under a variety of headings...
...rarely been able to not more than the third places which must come to it when the respective teams are allowed but two men in each event. Both teams have been spared from even more humiliating disaster only by the efforts of their captains; and both have had to combat the poor spirit and breaches of training which go with discouraging scores...
...employment, where workers can secure an hour's instruction each day as part of their working time. More than one thousand of these schools are already in operation, Chicago alone having several hundred. The universal adoption of such a system would be the foundation of a serious effort to combat the insidious danger of illiteracy...
...long period of training, of learning the rudiments, he cannot master fencing. When learning golf, tennis, or boxing, the beginner, though not accomplished in his sport, can enjoy himself dubbing at the game until he becomes proficient. The novice fencer is not allowed the pleasure and exhilaration of combat until he not only has learned the elements but until he has mastered them. It is this three or four month period of learning, of work without play, that discourages the public from a sport which once learned has proved an invaluable asset to its devotees, and a life-long source...