Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scholarships which make possible study at foreign universities have received a certain amount of criticism in the past. One often hears that the very numbers of Rhodes Scholars at Oxford is a handicap to the individuals--that they can never really belong to the true Oxford, and conversely that foreign students in American colleges can never hope to get the benefit from their college years that American students receive. But the make-up of the Harvard Law School places every man on an equal footing. There is a minimum of social distinction, and an equal opportunity lies before native...
Tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock the second annual undergraduate cross country handicap race for the Gregg Richards '02 trophy will take place. It will be held over the flat course along the Charles River...
Last year J. L. Reid '29, then captain of the squad, was winner in actual time elapsed, breaking his own record for the course by covering the distance in 27 minutes, 28 and 4-5 seconds. In handicap placing, however, he was eighth, while the race was won by Sturtevant Burr '31, now a regular member of the cross country team, who had a handicap of 4 minutes, 20 seconds. His name was the first to be inscribed upon the trophy...
Representative Fred Britten, Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, jibed: "West Point is afraid to meet Annapolis unless given a favorable handicap ... an example of the stubbornness of the Army mule...
Freshman: Winter--January 25, K. of C.; February 8, Andover at Andover; February 15, B. A. A.; February 24, Tri-angular meet; March 1, Exeter at Exeter. Spring--April 19, Andover at Andover; May 2, 3, Greater Boston Intercollegiate; May 9, University Handicap; May 10, Interscholastic; May 17, Exeter at Exeter; May 24, Yale...