Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Yale match only three days away, Coach Jack Barnaby's tennis team is a far stronger aggregation than it was at the beginning of the season, and, if anything, looms as a slight favorite against the Elis on Saturday...
...strength of Coach Barnaby's team centers mainly around the first two men, Dave Burt and Captain Langdon Gilkey, who also form the number one doubles pair. These two players are very evenly matched; thus far Burt has kept the number one position because of his impressive record in outside matches, despite the fact that Gilkey won the only test match they have played. The secret of Burt's success is his steadiness and accuracy combined with an extraordinarily fine competitive temperament which has brought him victory over Mattman, Bellis, and Ryder, number one of Miami, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina...
...dead ringer for Taylor, but he soon passes out of the picture and never returns, even to explain his striking resemblance to the star. All in all, one cannot help concluding that the screwball tendency in comedy so easily overdone, has been carried a number of degrees too far...
...far the greatest significance of yesterday's statement is the fact that the mountain has begun to move. These actions alone are guerilla tactics; they harry but do not destroy. Commercialized tutoring will not quit Harvard because of such negative steps. There has been a beginning only; there must be a great deal more to follow...
...future official policy lies in the following words: "In so far as any work done by commercial tutoring schools is defensible . . . (it) should be provided by the College itself or under its direction." In simple terms, Harvard proposes to do its own tutoring. One happy day, the vicious practices and the farcical education of big-time, high-pressure cramming will have passed from the Square...