Word: handicap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such figures are a splendid justification of the confidence of the founders of the fund. The break with a familiar mode of life and abrupt transplantation into one with different customs and language is a handicap not overcome without both ability and earnestness. Both of these the emigrants have shown themselves to have in no small amount, and the country of their adoption is the gainer for the addition of such a group of productive workers to her ranks. As is the case with most persecutions, Soviet Russia has secured outward some degree of conformity to its tenets only...
...handicap contest in throwing the 35-pound weight open to all undergraduates will be held during the week preceding the Christmas recess...
...Sophomores will be graded on a point basis according to the amount of work done and accepted. During the first week the duties will be light while the new men are familiarized with the fundamentals of journalistic work. Because of this, lack of experience does not prove a handicap at the start of the competition...
...weights is generally a problem for any coaches of class football. In a group of men reporting for the game large, earnest, and unwieldy athletes who cannot make the grade on the first or second-string University squads stand beside equally earnest sportsmen whose 130 pounds is a handicap in any football circle. There is a consequent lack of balance in intramural football elevens that detracts from the zest of competition...
...first Annual Undergraduate Cross Country Handicap meet for the Gragg Richards '02 trophy will be held this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock on the University five and a half mile course...