Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against them Sinclair and Fall have after long delays and many a slip comfortably escaped so far. Said Dean Pound: "Did Sinclair keep the same lawyers in the criminal case that he had employed in the chancery proceedings? He has not. He hired the best criminal lawyers he could find. Chancery or civil practice is very widely different from criminal practice. To put two civil lawyers up against a corps of criminal experts spelled defeat for the government from the first, for criminal prosecution is in itself a fine art that can be developed only by long practice...
Coach Brown followed his usual policy of rowing men on both sides of the boat thereby creating a facility in handling either a port or a starboard oar, which facility doubles the man's chance to find a place in one of the varsity boats. In addition to this shifting, the head coach adhered to his policy of rotating various men in the stroke position and also in the coxswain's seat. As in the past under Coach Brown, the ultimate choice of a cox will rest with the oarsmen themselves...
Probably the most amateur in spirit of all the major sports, crew has always attracted a large number of men who row merely because they find it the most expedient and pleasant manner of keeping fit. If one needed proof of this statement it is amply to be found in the fact that in spite of there being nothing approaching an objective race during the fall season nearly three hundred men have pulled an oar in some crew during the weeks just now coming to a close. The informality of the University squad and the flexible number of possible class...
...life at Harvard "more leisurely" and "happier" under the House plan. How greater leisure can he introduced into the life of a college without the relaxation of academic or extra-curriculum activity is difficult to see. In the expectation or greater happiness under the new system one can find little more than a blithe optimism common to all prophets of a utopian future...
...sheer romancing and the weaving of tales that appeal to everyone who of tales that appeal to everyone who wishes this life were more adventurous than it is, Sir Walter Scott ranks high among English authors. His admirers will find his characters even more daring and his settings more romantic after atending the lecture to be given this after noon on "The Scotland of Sir Walter Scott" by Professor Hersey. It is at 2 o'clock in Emerson J and will be illustrated...