Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...length. No time was taken. The two crews rowed side by side for half the course, when Middlesex slowly pulled ahead and at a point about 100 yards from the finish was half a length in the lead. Here the Freshmen spurted but were only able to gain one-quarter of a length before the finish line was reached...
...better of the start and remained in the lead during the entire race. Columbia and Pennsylvania were unable to row as high a stroke as the second University crew and even when the latter lowered the stroke to 35 at the middle of the course, it continued to gain on the other two boats. At the last half-mile, Harvard was three-quarters of a length and a half. It was a dead heat between Columbia and Pennsylvania for second place. The crew rowed fairly well in this first race but showed a tendency to finish weak. There was slight...
...Faculty that this system is not perfect. Moreover, under the present unrestricted elective plan a student can frame for himself as good a schedule as the new system provides, and, indeed, many men have done so. However, for the great majority of undergraduates the change must prove a notable gain. "So long as the student is told that any 16 courses are, in the opinion of the College authorities, equivalent to any others, it is natural he should often be careless in their choice, and that he should seek the path of least resistance...
...doctrine that men are born equal or may be rendered equal by legislation, and maintains that despite "The Menace of Socialism," the government of the future "will be founded upon profound inequality." Mr. Lippmann follows with a defence of Socialism, scarcely less fervid. "That Socialism," says Mr. Sheahan, "should gain enthusiastic recruits from the field of literature and from the colleges is disgraceful." "Until we drop the scholastic method in politics," says Mr. Lippmann, "and substitute the method of induction, we shall continue to wallow in misunderstanding and futility." Both papers are of interest...
...LECTURE. "How to Gain or Lose Weight." Dr. F. W. White. Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston...