Word: evener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office during the summer, a singularly high scholastic record. Among the new Freshmen last year, 21.9 per cent made the Dean's list as compared with 17.6 per cent in 1927-28. The large percentage of the class of 1932 who completed the year with a satisfactory record is even more striking. Only 16.7 per cent of last year's Freshman class had unsatisfactory records as contrasted with 21.1 per cent in 1927-28 and 20.1 per cent...
...daily exercises are unpleasant requirements, but their abolition would probably increase the difficulty of the course. Some substitute method, however, would be very desirable, even the high school method of holding students responsible for explaining any assigned problem on the blackboard, if that were practicable...
...diminish bis popularity at the Point because, newspaper and schoolgirl illusions to the contrary notwithstanding. Christian Keener Cagle is not a domineering, fire-eating, muscle-bulging hero off the gridiron. He is quiet, retiring. He brought a drawl but not much rambunctiousness with him from Louisiana. He is not even redhaired, as legend says, nor six feet tall. But two feet are better than six if they can carry you as fast as Cagle's through a broken field. And it is some consolation, if you are not handy at theme-writing, to be able to throw an accurate...
...certain fields of professional sport. New York sport pages and individual columnists alike reflect the trend of the times with a tendency toward an Increasing emphasis upon amateur sports, upon tennis and golf and polo, that must be of some significance to the public at large, but of even more consequence to the collegiate world in which the best of amateur sport in certain fields is to be found...
...amateur. It was not such a far cry to the professional conquest of hockey, while the present invasion of football, although not yet a conquest by any means, is an established fact. Professionalism steps in where angels fear to tread as is evidenced by recent attempts to commercialize even the most commonplace dance marathon, let alone the attempted subsidization of better accepted sports such as tennis...