Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characteristics are those of the era, more especially of the decade. Played in a small space, over a short period of time, fast and breathlessly competitive, individual to the last degree and really getting nowhere in the end, it is marvellously comparable to the life of the average American citizen. Distinctly a product of the times, it is of immeasurable value as the only sport available for over-rushed city workers, and as such its coming development can only be surmized...
...tutoring school, where, as the Dean points out, "the man with the twenty-four hour mind . . . hopes to get strong by paying a friend to swing the dumbbells." It is an encouraging feature, however, that there are so few such men in our colleges. The trend of education is fast rising, if the signs are not wrong. The near future will find the present type of black sheep entirely weeded...
...there will be wise and knowing shaking of heads instead of a healthy, jubilant rush for the doors. Ignorance has always been bliss for those who wish to live "happily ever after." But this depressing exposure of the big clock's idlosyncrasies should be regarded philosophically. Time pases unnecessarily fast anyway...
...relay teams in the B. A. A. meet last Saturday was the high light of the sporting world this week. The result of the two-mile race with Yale was never in doubt. J. N. Watters of Winchester, the Harvard anchor man, finishing with a halflap advantage in the fast time of 8 minutes, 11 and 2-5 seconds. The M. I. T. one-mile relay was a closer affair, the Crimson being able to boost the lead to only 12 yards at the finish...
Clothed in the cast-off garments of Apollo, with a crown of bay generally askew, strumming at intervals a tuneless lyre, the genius of the paper has lived on unchallenged and unchallenging while its mascot Pegasus has remained fast tethered in his stall...