Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youth, the handicap of college editors, is also their advantage, for they are without the ties, convictions, and prejudices of older men. Ideally they mould and crystallize that which is finest in undergraduate opinion, developing and stimulating undergraduate thought, while staying always one jump ahead of the college in pointing the way to reform. Ideally they are conscious of their obligation, as Dean Leighton once put it, "to be accurate in statements of fact, and cognizant of other possible views in statements of opinion...
...Yale the quintet has something really on their hands, namely the games with Cornell and Columbia on successive nights, February 18 and 19. The team has run into nothing like this previously in the season and it is here that the question of whether the lack of reserves will handicap the Fesler-men will once and for all be answered...
...were to raise their entrance standards there would be less need to tighten up on the scholastic requirements to stay in college; thus the problem would be attacked at its very roots, and many men would be spared the unnecessary pain of being "flunked out." It is unfair to handicap a man by admitting him to a college curriculum which he cannot met, and then send him home again with a feeling of inferiority...
Spotted one goal on a handicap basis, the Remblers Polo team planned a 5 1/2 to 5 defeat on the Crimson Varsity malletmen in a senior indoor polo league game Saturday night at the Commonwealth armory. The defeat knocked the Crimson out of first place in the standing...
After a week's vacation from athletic activity, Vernon Struck, Varsity full- back and captain of the basketball team will report for the first time tomorrow. Because of the handicap of not playing thus far this season, Coach Fesler indicated that Struck will have to fight for the starting guard post that he held last year...