Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...address to the high school coaches of the state Dean Holmes offers an intelligent solution to the conflict between educators and the proponents of specialized athletics by proposing the inauguration in the secondary schools of the "athletics for all" policy now in vogue at Harvard. The successful development of a large body of men in earlier years would be much more satisfactory than a small number already excellently trained in a highly specialized sport upon entrance to college. It is unfortunate that the present financial status of many of the poorer schools will not permit such expansion...
...McCormick, whose wife was trying to change his doctor and oust the brother and sister as co-executors of his $50,000,000 estate. Said Mr. McCormick: "Stanley's mind has always been unimpaired but there has been an interruption between the processes of his mind . . . tremendous mental conflict." He told how he once took his mother, the late Mrs. Cyrus McCormick Sr., to a hill hard by the Santa Barbara estate where his brother was secluded, so that she could look at her son through field glasses...
...those who are interested in the ever present problems arising from the conflict between capital and labor, Economics 6a presents an admirable summary of the most vital issues. This course, given by Professor Ripley for many years, was taken over by Professor Persons of Boston University last year. The latter instructor, however, was called to Washington this fall to take up a government position as an expert on the question of unemployment, and to date no successor has been announced for the course...
When the case led him into conflict with Professor Moriarty, beetling-browed ruler of London's underworld who held his councils in a fearsome catacomb, Sherlock blandly donned his double-peaked cap and walked into the Professor's ambush-a lethal chamber. He smashed the single lamp, deluded his captors by leaving his glowing cigar on a window ledge, escaped with the frightened maiden. When he had later trapped the diabolical Professor with more such nonchalant magic, it appeared that Sherlock would marry the girli, albeit he was a poor insurance risk, sustained in the approved...
That J. E. Barrett '30 and B. H. Ticker captain and captain-elect of the Crimson football squad, would decline the invitation to play on the all eastern football in its Western conflict on the coast this month, was made known yesterday. The invitation which was extended only to senior members of eastern teams in the majority of cases allowed for the exception of Ticknor whose brilliant play resulted in his selection for the center position on almost every one of the mythical "All-American" teams published by sporting authorities...