Word: handicap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sport in particular. Professor Shepard thinks the whole trouble lies in our lack of a spirit of play. Business men for instance he claims play golf merely to keep fit for more business. What is important to them is not the actual play but the work of lowering a handicap...
...Monday afternoon, the first events of the winter handicap track meet for all members of the University will be held. Extending over a three-day period, this all-University contest will take the place of the Winter Carnival which has heretofore proven very popular...
...yard dash with Miller at his heels. The winner sped over the distance in six and three-tenths seconds, one-tenth of a second from the world mark. Murchison's leg injury, which he received at the close of last year's season, may be a handicap to the champion runner this year, and the Crimson sprinter, who has been showing more speed than ever, may flash his heels in front of the field tonight. In the 40 yard dash at the Knights of Columbus games, Miller was clocked at four and three-fifths seconds, one-fifth of a second...
...handicap which has faced the universities in their effort to institute honors courses and tutorial systems, to leave more to the individual effort and research of the undergraduate and less to the traditional lecture and test system has been the lack of proper training on the part of the preparatory school. The incoming Freshman arrives armed with the requisite number of facts but with a mind whose development has been retarded by the herding which it has undergone continuously from childhood. The mental processes work only in a crowd or with the crowd. Knowledge means nothing unless it is translated...
Sharing Crimson honors with the veteran sprinter is G. W. Smith '29, whose race in the 600-yard handicap defeated Higgins of Boston College and Fay of Technology. Smith made the distance in 1m. 20 3-5s., running a smooth well-timed race...