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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both delegations count among their members athletes of unusual promise. The outcome of most of the events today is nearly impossible to predict. The mile race, for instance, will see Luttmann of Harvard and Swede of Exeter, brother of the Crimson cross-country star, opposed to each other. Both can lay claim to excellent performances during the early season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1928 TRACK TEAM TRIES ITS LUCK WITH EXETER | 5/16/1925 | See Source »

...riddle I am trying to solve. My observation convinces me that in spite of all their pother and noisy activity, few of these young men really know what they are about. Their universal rule seems to be: "Do something. Get busy Fill the hour. Make every minute count--never mind what it counts for--and in four years the magic of hustle-bustle will transform us into educated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Persian University Letter No. 4 | 5/12/1925 | See Source »

Then, doubtless unconsciously, he scored an ill-designed accusation made inter alia by Count Karolyi when he reached Canada, that no loans should be made to the present Hungarian Government because such funds would be used to stir up another war: "As for rumors against loans which claim that the Hungarian Government uses the money for warlike purposes, I will only say that not one cent may be spent for other than economic and financial reconstruction without my consent. And I will not give my consent to anything which does not serve the interest of reconstruction. The Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Dictator | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

Born. To King Victor Emmanuel, a grandson, Giorgio, son of Princess Yolanda and Count Calvi di Bergolo; in Pinerolo, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 11, 1925 | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...tutorial work counted one-third, and course work, two-thirds of the whole rank, the emphasis would be put on course work. Yet this plan would help to do away with the present over emphasis on the value of course grades as indication of attainment. Course grades have always been regarded as an artificial necessity and an unavoidable evil by leaders of educational thought and progress. The proposed separation of emphasis would not seem to provide a method of ranking on the whole less arbitrary than the present method. Nevertheless if tutorial reports used the terms, "satisfactory," "barely satisfactory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORABLE MENTION ESSAYIST FAVORS EXTENSION OF TUTORIAL SYSTEM-WOULD ADOPT LESS ARTIFICIAL METHOD OF GRADING | 5/1/1925 | See Source »

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