Word: handicap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Roxbury youth having been forced out of athletics at Harvard for all of last year because of an eye injury sustained during the baseball season when he was hit by a batted ball. Although his vision is still somewhat defective. Howard has not found it much of a handicap to winning a regular position, and it is not likely he will relinquish it during the present season...
Under the watchful eye of Coach Danguy, the University fencing squad is working out daily in preparation for a hard schedule. The whole of last year's foils team was lost by graduation, and lack of experience is liable to prove the greatest handicap to the development of the squad. The swordsmen upon whom Coach Danguy is counting to form the nucleus of his team are Captain R. P. Outer bridge '28, A. C. Lane '27, J. F. Davidson '27, M. R. Berliner '28, and G. H. Umbsen '29, who was captain of last year's Freshman duellers...
...last named difficulty hinges on the question of university economics. It there were money enough in becoming a tutor to promise a man a decent existence, many more would be content to consider this a life work. The second handicap to success could be overcome, to some extent, by the development of the remedy suggested for the third, provided, of course, the cost system of departmentalized education be viewed with the necessary grain of salt. The first can only be eradicated by closer contact between English and American tutors. Unless these men here learn the subtle refinements of what must...
...orchestra, directed nerve on nerve to sheer hypnosis. In Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia, the piece de resistance, Miss Leginska played the piano part, leaving the orchestra, as critics commented, with no mother to guide it, in spite of which it revealed euphony, balance, potential flexibility. A tremendous handicap was the acoustics of Mechanic's Hall. Tumultuous applause from the conductor's own devoted followers augured well for the season's support...
When Horween signed a one-year contract as head coach, many expressed the fear that his lack of experience would handicap him in his attempt to lead the University eleven, but the great and steady improvement of the team and the potentialities which it has shown have led the Committee to believe that he is entitled to a long-term contract...