Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Innovations of this sort, however, are at least noble in motive, and occasionally prove workable, and the question of how much responsibility can reasonably be placed in the hands of the captain of a team, and whether or not such responsibility is liable to prove an added handicap to a player, will come in for some close scrutiny this spring. When, if ever, the system is applied to football, the amateurizers will have more valid cause for excitement...
...veteran players of the Artillery team had little trouble in topping the Crimson, although Harvard started with a four goal handicap. Captain E. T. Gerry '31 was again absent from the lineup, having been out of town during the weekend. The University team was made up of the same players who competed in the first two contests of the season for the seconds, and they played on Saturday as the University team because of the absence or ineligibility of other players...
...relation of secondary schools to institutions of higher learning the lecture continues. "Secondary schools are handicapped, then, because of the expectation that they shall prepare for higher education of academic kinds more students than are fit to profit by it. They handicap themselves by inculcating in their students a conviction that much of their curriculum is of value only as a preparation for further study in the remote future, that man never is, but always (is) to be blest...
Newton Center, Lincoln's Inn. Walk-over Club, and M. I. T. follow in this group. In class C Harvard University ranks fifth and Harvard 1933 eleventh while Harvard 1933 stands tenth on the '31, E.H. McGrath '32, and J.B. Haines '32. Watkins won the handicap dash at the Milrose meet last year. Hennessey and G.G. Kirstein '32 are 300-yarders of promise. Hallowell, Fobes, and Munroe will compete in the middle distances, while Cobb, B.E. Laten '32, E.T. Floathe '32, and G.N. Barrie '32 of last year's Freshman team will be seen in the longer grinds...