Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conn., June 11,--After the weekend spent cruising on J. P. Morgan's yacht the "Cosair", the Crimson oarsmen started out upon the final ten days of practice for the Yale races this morning with a two mile drill on the down-stream course. The Thames was moderately calm, ruffled on the return trip by a rising southwest wind...
...After a final and as ever victorious verbal struggle with the Davis Cup committee, Big Bill Tilden and his fellow tennis warriors have sailed to engage in the first Davis Cup matches an American team has played away from home for many years. What the chances are for Tilden, Lott, Hennessey, Hunter and Coen to ensure next year's contest being on American soil will be uncertain for many weeks yet, but for a year at any rate France has the honors. Indeed, for most of the summer the attention of the sporting world will be focused on Europe...
...remedial measure suggested in the Class of 1927 report is impractical. It collides with the difficulties of congestion, even more abruptly than the present system: the adviser would be compelled to give lengthy and comprehensive conferences in the spring, when he is either correcting final theses, preparing groups of Seniors for divisional, or working on the study card conferences of Sophomores and Juniors. Two fifteen-minute conferences separated by and interval of six months give negligible returns in mutual acquaintance. The solution, then, seems to lie in an increase of advisory conferences...
...student's time, who must be prepared for the demands of the imminent tutorial system. The burden that spring brings to the adviser would thus be eased. Such, losses of time as result from a field of concentration changed in the Sophomore or Junior year would be minimized. Final selection in April would be the result of developed understanding of what Harvard College offers the thought-hungry. There seems no reason why the class of 1932 should be subject to methods of faculty advising so variant in quality as those in present...
Mouse Trap. The bizarre opinion that valor is a mouse trap was quaintly justified by the circumstances which caused Chang Tso-lin to withdraw from Peking last week, without fighting any final pitched engagement or making a theatrical "last stand." Circumstances...