Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every effort has been made to permit inexperienced men to compete on an equal footing with the most consistent regulars on the squad. Not only will all events be run on a handicap basis, but there will be two novice races, the 40-yard dash and the 440-yard run, that will be open only to men who have never won a prize in any regular meet...
...School series will be played this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock at the University Squash Courts. Both teams now have one match to their credit so the title clash this afternoon should provide some of the best squash of the season. The teams are balanced to an unusually equal degree. The lawyers took the first round in a series of matches replete with thrills, but the University players succeeded in evening matters in the return contest, M. P. Baker '22 furnishing the deciding point in the final bout of the match...
...American" mythical teams; cut down all publicity as much as possible; (2) Abolish all "summer" or pre-college term practice; (3) Abolish all advertising, of any intentional sort, of intercollegiate contests; (4) Eliminate as much as possible intersectional contests--so far as this is compatible with playing, opponents of equal strength. The matter of subsifized athletes, clean playing, professional coaching, and the so-called "tramp" athlete, are not problems which can be successfully dealt with by rule; no college need have any of these if it does not so choose...
...Poetry, and About Bathrooms, are inimitable. Their humor is somewhat more restrained than that of A Criminal Type, from which we quoted above, as also is that of Reading Without Tears: but perhaps for this very reason they are even more delightful and valuable. For impertinent audacity what can equal the following extract from Wrong Numbers, a game of unconscionable impersonation on the telephone, invented by the author...
...probable outcome of this meeting will be a rating for cargo insurance which will be as low as those prevailing abroad. This is one step toward the rehabilitation of the American merchant marine, but more must be done before United States' ships will be able to compete on an equal basis with merchant fleets of other nations...