Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cadets began the contest with a furious rush which swept them into a commanding lead. Headed by the brilliant passing and shooting of Strother, who alone accounted for 14 of his team's points, the soldiers peppered the visitor's basket to gain an early margin which Harvard was not able to overcome...
...great weakness lies in the field events, where they are conceded a chance of winning only six points. Cornell, as in previous years, is powerful in this department and is counted on to amass a total of 23, with Dartmouth winning 16 points. The University team is expected to gain six much-needed points in the broad jump and shot put to carry it through to victory, but its chances are slim at the best. French should take second place, but here again he may be handicapped by his late start in training. Last year he won the event with...
Hitherto a student who might have desired to take a modern language in his final year of preparatory school changed instead to a science or a history which would enable him to gain an extra point. With the recent change in regulations the student is not deprived of the continuity of his study of French or German, and high schools are encouraged to give more thorough courses in these languages. Four years of Greek and Latin have always been acceptable for entrance; the change puts the important modern languages on equal basis with the classics...
Harvard invests today in a $13,000,000 experiment to gain the advantages of the small college. Middlebury has been successfully investing in the same thing for over 128 years, only on a different scale. Do we at Middlebury fully appreciate the benefits and heritage which are ours as a small college, and for which, in its attempt to approach them, a sister institution willingly expends a tremendous fortune." Middlebury Campus...
Especially significant last week, in view of all that the Papacy is about to gain, seemed the well-worn inscription on an obelisk erected by Sixtus V, and which faces St. Peter...