Word: handicap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first two of these setbacks came at the hands of two of New England's strongest hockey aggregations, the University Club and Yale, but the third was a 3 to 1 drubbing by M. I. T. The Terriers are admittedly weak at goal and this has been their handicap in all three games...
...Vonckx '31 yesterday afternoon won the 35 pound weight in the tall University Handicap Meet. As in previous years, all the other events of this meet were held at the end of October while this was postponed for about a month. G. F. Bennett '33 took second place, while Murdock Finlayson '32 came in third...
Vonckx, who started from search, threw the weight 46 feet 6 inches, after which was Bennett's toss of 41 feet 10 inches, including a 13 foot handicap. Finlayson, with a three foot lead was measured at 40 feet 2 inches...
...researches by Professor Dearborn and his associates in the Laboratory of Educational Psychology on the processes and mechanisms of reading. Defects in reading may result form wrong habits established in early years and may prevent the attainment of normal speed in reading throughout life. Slow reading is a tremendous handicap in study at every level. The work already done in this subject at the Graduate School of Education promises to lay bare the causes of difficulty in reading and provide meant for at least a partial correction...
...next track event is to be 35 pound weight handicap on Monday at 8.30 in the new cage. This is to be open to the whole University...