Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leverett is one of the less well known Houses. It labors under the handicap of a building which is not altogether new. McKinlock Hall, the old Freshman Dormitory, was combined with the newly constructed Mather to complete the unit. But despite this Leverett maintains an attractive and congenial atmosphere. The public rooms are large and graceful with an air of comfortable informality. In decorating the dining room, one of the handsomest features of the House Plan, the architects made skilful use of two circles, of unequal size, and an oval, to conceal through optical illusion the fact that the room...
Kirkland House started its career under the handicap of having to live down the prejudices which surrounded it as the direct heir of the most disreputable of all the Freshman Halls. James and Persis Smith Halls, in the old days, were the freshman playgrounds and now, when no more Jubilants will trample the fugitive grass, they wear an air of faded youth. Outside the western gate runs the ceaseless traffic of Boylston Street and beyond it the dreary maze of the trolley car terminal. Kirkland, without the freshness of a new House, without the relief of the Charles to turn...
Adams started off the seven-sided race for enrollment with an admitted handicap. It is a small House and the only one not entirely completed: though it is conveniently near the Yard, its surroundings are noisy and comparatively unattractive. Only one of its dormitories is modern, and the rooms incline to be dingy. Long, long before its six neighbors put in their mushroom-like appearance Adams House was there. Colonial Apthorp sheltered General Putnam; the captured Burgoyne lived in it when it were only a few of the forty coats of paint which the interior decorators removed in 1930. Westmorly...
Overcoming a handicap of 10 goals, the Yale polo team defeated the Crimson trio, 23 to 15 1-2, at New Haven Saturday. The Eli riders began to close up the lead of the University team at the beginning of the second half and continued to outride their opponents until the closing minutes...
This case illustrates that the most serious handicap to the American public school system: the belief that the state must provide every man under the legal age with a free and complete secondary education. Many men attend high school only because they are required to by law, or because they prefer it to working for wages. In either case they feel that no matter how little studying they do, the school cannot deny them instruction and the use of athletic facilities. The invariable result is that these laggards impede class work forcing the standard over lower. Men who show...