Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty candidates for the Varsity baseball team had their first practice yesterday under the guidance of Coach Floyd Stahl in Briggs Cage. These aspirants are all infielders or outfielders as the pitchers and catchers have already had an extra week of workouts...
...pressure. At present German newspapers that cannot make a profit competing with the subsidized, official party organs must all close up and release their workers for "more useful duties," i. e., soldiering, digging forts, making guns. Last week another batch of twelve papers went over the dam with an extra loud splash. Among them: the Berliner Tageblatt, once Germany's greatest liberal voice under exiled Editor Theodor Wolff; Kreuz-Zeitung, which Bismarck founded in 1848; the late Chancellor Dollfuss' Neue Freie Presse; the 236-year-old Wiener Zeitung...
Modern educators, including President Conant, are currently vying with each other in their loud huzzahs for extra-curricular activities as a vital part of an education. Official Harvard recognizes them in its scholarship awards and in various other honors. The undergraduate body recognizes them by common respect for participants. In choosing his activity, each student must be guided by his own interest and capabilities. But the Crimson likes to feel that it shelters under its skirts such a variety of activities that it can satisfy the bent of almost everyone...
...round-trip to Montreal is sixteen dollars, with $2.65 extra for a lower berth and $2.00 for an upper. The H.A.A. trip allows you to leave here the 17th, 18th, 19th or 20th and return on the 22nd. The hockey team is playing Montreal in Montreal on Tuesday, the 21st, and is scheduled to meet McGill at Toronto the following night...
...seems that Harvard will always have the non-scholarly as well as the scholarly student. Undoubtedly the C man has a place; he is the spine of the extra-curricular activities, which in their way are as essential to college life as the curriculum. It is usually the C man who desires a broad education, but it is doubtful whether he would sacrifice concentration and tutorial-regardless of how little time he gives them-for a backward system based merely on course credits. No matter how intellectually incurious is a student, he prefers personal to mob instruction in theory, though...