Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thirds and thus nose out the others Standish captured the swimming meet which was added to the list of sports for the first time this year. In the basketball league Gore went through the nine games without a defeat and then defeated the class and fraternity league winners to gain the University intramural laurels...
...present champions, as well as the victors from the preliminaries last Monday, will don gloves tonight at 8 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium in the final ten bouts of the University boxing tournament. The winners gain the Harvard titles for the year, and will be awarded intramural medals for their attainments...
...winner as first prize is given the Lee Wade award of $50; while the second, third, and fourth speakers gain the three Boylston prizes, one of $50 and two of $30. The judges will be the Reverend S. A. Eliott '84, M. A. DeW. Howe, Joseph Lee '83, Professor E. K. Rand '94, and Eliot Wadsworth '98. A. E. French Jr. '29, First Marshal of the Senior Class, will preside...
...other hand, it would be equally wrong to accept the claims of Antifascist agitators. When the concordat between Rome and the Vatican was concluded, for example, you could hear them explain that it was done partly in order to gain the support of the clergy for the forthcoming plebiscite, and a hint was thrown out that such support was rather needed. Now, however, it will be asserted that the people in Italy had no choice but to vote for the Fascist candidates. Emigres are as hard to please as an irate mother-in-law, and who will blame them...
...divulged, but it seems that the only thing Harvard will lose by this is a considerable amount of publicity. It is doubtful whether many people took last year's culture battle as anything but a huge joke, and the final outcome had little significance outside of resulting in a gain of $5,000 for the Harvard English department...