Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marcel Cerdan, middleweight boxing champion of Europe, had a handicap to face in the U.S.; European boxers have a long-standing habit of being put to sleep or putting the customers to sleep. But when Marcel promptly pounded out a decision over George Abrams (TIME, Dec. 16), promoters began to look him over with eyes not only wide, but gleaming...
...large number of required lab hours further limit the student's academic freedom, and unless he chooses chemistry upon entering college, he will be over-whelmed by his later schedule. Running contrary to the University policy of letting the Freshman browse before striking out for himself, these stipulations unnecessarily handicap the man who enters college undecided and practically circumvent the theory of the elective system...
Said Sproul: "[The] function of the university . . . does not require . . . that every high-school graduate must be guaranteed a bachelor's degree. The chief handicap of American higher education . . . has been our too easy admission to university training of large numbers of students . . . not properly qualified by native ability, or previous training, or even social attitude...
Listed as a prelude to the official season is the official University Handicap, which will be run off on April 12. Designed to uncover any latent track and field material on the local scene, it is open to anybody strong enough to lace up a track shoe...
April 12, University Handicap...