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Place prepared for college at Milton Academy, where he was track manager. He won the competition for Freshman manager last year, and is the first man in several years to nab both the coveted positions. Beside breaking this jinx, he overcame the handicap of being on crutches the whole season, because of a skiing accident last Christmas...
From these findings Wilford Aikin and his fellow commissioners drew only this cautious conclusion: Progressive schooling is at least no handicap to success in college. But they believed that the implications of their conclusion were revolutionary: if traditional high-school courses had no advantages for the college-bound, why should not every U. S. high school be free to try new ways? Armed with this thesis, the Commission last spring began conferences with college officers. It proposed that colleges substitute simpler entrance requirements. A suggested plan: 1) recommendation of a student by his high-school principal, 2) the student...
...transposing it to the screen. Even the saccharine qualities of Norma Shearer are skillfully tempered to fit the regenerated Countess. Only Robert Taylor, unfairly injected into big-league competition, falls behind the pace. But Director Le Roy's combination is too strong to be defeated by this single handicap...
Nevertheless, the soccer eleven will work under one serious handicap, for halfback Bill Edgar will have to remain on the sidelines. Edgar has been a mainstay in the rear wall for three years, but in the vicious Springfield tilt last week he suffered a serious ankle injury that may keep him out of the Yale game also...
...Student Council's war relief drive this week faces the severe handicap of public boredom. Exposed to the war only through a year of headlines, we over here have become inured to its details. Night bombings are no longer so scusational as they were in August. The invasion of Greece seems like old stuff. We tend to forget that each hour of bombing causes more loss of property than the fall of the Tacoma bridge. The phrase "severe damage to personnel." so carelessly bandied around by newspaper strategists, actually means that more blood has been poured onto the soil...