Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less than 40 years ago the Harvard "Lampoon" held undisputed sway in the field of college humor. With only one rival, the Columbia "Spectator", the wits from Mt. Auburn Street could boast a circulation and a reputation which was without equal. Then into the Cambridge jester's existence of placid dignity and lonely rule was suddenly hurled a disturbing, challenging bolt in the form of the first Princeton "Tiger...
...Whitbeck Jr. '29, of Bronxville, New York, was chosen yesterday to lead the Harvard tennis team next spring. He will succeed his brother J. F. W. Whitbeck '27. The new Crimson net leader has been playing number 4 on the team this spring and although he is not the equal of his brother on the court, he has displayed an excellent brand of tennis in his matches this spring...
...real strength. For example, one destroyer may have a constructive strength of a destroyer division- in which case, for the duration of the game, this destroyer is accepted as representing an entire division of its kind. In the same way, a company of infantry may have a constructive strength equal to a regiment. Thus the 75,000 troops with the Black fleet were largely constructive. In the second place, the results of an action are decided by umpires. In the New England game, for instance, the cruiser Concord was "sunk" by the battleship Pennsylvania. What happened was that the Concord...
Such are the implied enconiums heaped upon the system of travelling fellowships for graduates, also on instances of exchange professorships, and the like. It is hard to see why the same reasoning does not apply, and with equal force, to travelling scholarships for undergraduate. It is an outworn doctrine that the American undergraduate is a schoolboy needing constant discipline lest the desire for learning die entirely within his breast. He is being now, rather, subjected to contacts that are in themselves educational. Such is discussion with a competent tutor. Such, also, might well be study, for one year...
...years work. Taking frogs instead of fishes they found that unfertilized eggs which would naturally die when placed under powerful ultra-violet rays for five or ten minutes turned into living fish larvae. The same experiment was tried on star fish and a number of lower animays with equal success...