Word: following
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collected seven hits, all singles, and of the regulars, he stands next to Sullivan with an average of .350. Zarakov, winner last year of the prizes for both fielding and hitting: Chauncey, catching his first year on the University outfit, and Barbee, the latter's battery mate follow in the slugging array in the order named...
...freshman year must prepare men to get the most out of the three years which follow it, which are really what we mean by the college education proper. The freshman year is frankly the year of training, and we try to jam the transition from school to college into one year in order that each student may have three years of college work of a university character...
Illiteracy figures as quoted in the current "World's Work" credit Germany with the lowest proportion of illiterates in her population with the figure of five hundredths of one percent. Switzerland, Great Britain, United States, and France follow in order, the last named housing a population fourteen percent illiterate. All of these are countries in which democratic government has attained high development through many and troublous experiments. In Italy, where representative government has been at best a bad dream and at worst a nightmare, the percentage of illiterates reaches thirty-one, in Spain fifty-eight, and in Russia sixty-nine...
...honored and respected in spite of all the current jokes. There is, in fact, something like a Nation-wide revolt among thinking students against the evils of which the professors complain. It is the graduates now who are mainly responsible for the hysteria over sports, and the evils that follow in its train. Upon the campus itself there is a decided reaction toward sanity and practical reforms. --New York World, April...
...stops while the last of his audience parade down the aisle. . . . Haydn's "Farewell." The orchestra has played it better at other concerts. Some of the players seem merely indifferent, but several are definitely tired; the trombone puts his instrument in a case and walks out, the second cellos follow his example; now no one is left but Mr. Stokowski and two violins. One of the violins makes a surreptitious exit, playing as he goes. The other retires with a gracious...