Word: handicaped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more important, questioning as it does the efficacy of the Civil Service system for higher offices. According to General Bartlett, every Administration needs higher officials which it can trust with its plans for accomplishing great reforms, and employees who act as tale-bearers for the minority are a severe handicap and menace to the handling of the Government. In other words, the Civil Service is only for the lower employees and cannot be applied to the positions of authority...
...three track trophies offered for University competition will be awarded on the results of today's races in the annual spring handicap meet. The oldest of these is the Frank Wells Handicap Mile Cup, presented by Mr. Frank Wells '64 in 1893. Captain D. F. O'Connell '21 was the winner last spring, running from scratch. The "Two-Twenty" Cup was presented by Lawrence Paine Dodge '08 in 1909. Vinton Chapin '23 is the present holder of the cup as a result of his victory last spring in 22 minutes and three-fifths of a second. Mr. S. Gannett Wells...
...public is setting high standards, and the drama must live up to them. When I speak of 'drama' I refer not only to the legitimate stage, but also to the motion pictures, which, although they are at present on a lower standard than the stage, will overcome this handicap, and reach the artistic worth which they are aiming at. The motion pictures today are in the condition in which the stage was 15 or 20 years ago, when 'Ten Nights in a Bar-Room' and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' were popular. These plays are gone today, and the second-rate...
...trials yesterday afternoon which will play an important part in determining the men to go south on Saturday to meet the University of Virginia and the Navy during the annual spring trip. The practice today and tomorrow will be of a finishing nature leading up to the spring handicap meet on Friday. This meet, which is open to all members of the University, will be the last opportunity for Coach Bingham to judge the ability of the men before giving out the complete list that night...
Coach Bingham hopes to have a large number of men report for the spring handicap meet on Friday. The handicaps will be arranged so as to give in experienced men as good a chance to capture one of the gold, silver, or bronze medals as the most consistent performer on the track squad. All men wishing to compete should enter their names in one of the blue-books posted at the H. A. A., the Freshman Dormitories, Leavitt and Peirce's, and the Locker Building