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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specialty features this week are rather pleasant. Clark and McCullough, the sere and tested vandeville team, are largely responsible for it with their movietone comedy. The Publix arrangement "Topsy Turvy Town" is also a harmless show presented against a futuristic background. The left end from "Good News", if we remember the face does some clever hoofing in front of the ponies. This part of the performance is above the average...
...indoor polo season will start officially on Monday when the first practice of the season will be held in the Commonwealth Armory. Indoor track will start officially at the end of next week...
...total enrolment of the Class of 1929 during its first year, 880, 436 entered from public schools and 411 from preparatory schools, the remaining 33 being admitted from tutoring schools. Of the 436 entering from high schools, 102 made the Dean's List at the end of their first year and 60 turned in unsatisfactory records. This record is contrasted with that of the 411 preparatory school students, only 53 of whom attained Dean's List standing, and 92 of whom presented unsatisfactory records...
...duty of the preparatory schools is to prepare men for college. On the academic side this purpose is largely perverted by the attitude that sets up the entrance examinations as an end rather than a means. To push students onward to the end a system of extensive academic review occupies the final third of the preparatory school year. Months of dummy scrimmage against ghosts of past college entrance tests, while valuable in the emergency of the moment, are poor preparation for college courses where examinations are more incidental, and individual initiative must replace careful management by instructors...
Last Monday the Smith Halls team, which had won the Freshman Dormitory League, defeated the Wildcats, winners of the Independent League. The standing of the Freshman Dormitory League at the end of the season was as follows: Smith, 5; Standish, 3; Gore, 0; McKinlock, 0. The Independent League finished up in the following order: Wildcats, 12; Freebooters, 8; Tigers...