Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I tried to suggest to my more socially conscious American students that intellectual curiosity was not necessarily a form of sin or even frivolity and that a possible valid reason for pursuing this or that branch of knowledge was merely that they were interested in it.... I could see that I was thought to be expounding what is vaguely thought of as the 'European' point of view-at best something exotic and over-refined, at worst cynical and slightly sinister...
...bright side is the comforting recollection that Harvard has never lost to Dartmouth in squash. Because the Crimson has held second place in the intercollegiate competition for the past three years, it stood as a heavy favorite before the injuries were listed and is a favorite even...
Unlike football, basketball, or hockey, the game of squash racquets does not depend on team cooperation, or even on the mastery of a specific style by the members of the squad. The only way a coach could ever get a squad to play the same basic type of game would be to scout hundreds of candidates, looking for similarity of style. So Coach Barnaby has sensibly resolved to bring out the individual talent in each man rather than to impose a special game upon the player. On the Barnaby team, each man plays according to his own bent...
Because anyone who wants to play squash can practice and get advise under expert tutelage, this year's squad has depth. Even though the number one man, Henry Foster will be out with a broken ankle and the number three man, Joe Clark, will be unable to make the trip, Coach Barnaby feels that the team has an excellent chance of winning Friday. "This year's squad is probably the best since the war," he asserted yesterday, "and I believe this is so because our long range policy of letting anyone play who wants to has paid off." Three members...
...this scholarship program does not dispose of unlimited funds, and even those it has are already to a large extent earmarked by the tastes of donors. If these were to be spent in the effort to restore athletic prestige and profits, it would mean the practical end of that philosophy...