Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China, Christianity has no competition-except secularism-among educated people. Its greatest handicap is the appalling poverty of the country. The inflation has been most ruinous to those upon whom the spread of Christianity depends...
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...varied considerably from House to House, but that the House Masters are thinking of forming a joint policy that would apply in all dining halls. Should the Masters adopt the drastic Lowell House formula, every one of the College's threescore extracurricular organizations would be placed under a tremendous handicap, and it is doubtful that the student body as a whole would profit by an enforced isolation from activities in which it already takes far too little part...
Combined with results of the field events held Friday these times would make the hair of any opposing coach stand on end--if. The big if is that the winning times, distances, and heights were very often the result of considerable handicap padding...
Coach Mikkola, satisfied with the results of the two-day "glorified time-trial," said that handicap meets of this sort are excellent methods of uncovering latent track material; he agreed that "Harvard definitely won the meet!" From now on, though, everybody will have to come through without outside help, because there won't be any handicaps when Brown and Rhode Island State hit the Stadium cinders this Saturday...