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...education on every bush" is the criticism leveled at modern education by Horace D. Taft, headmaster of Taft School, in a speech before the annual meeting and smoker of Hotchkiss School in New York yesterday. Aiming his attack at secondary schools in particular, Mr. Taft declared that a great many students are admitted to the Universities of the West with certificates from schools "that ought to be closed by law." Parental interference, school boards, and money stringencies all play their part to block the path of progress. The whims of individual educators are unavailing without a solid foundation of education...
...link up various invitations to speak at schools in the East so that he can complete the whole on one circuit instead of making numerous short ones. Later on this year he will visit several local schools, including short trips to Andover and Exeter, and a longer one to Hotchkiss and Salisbury in March...
...Back 21 155 5.6 Milford Conklin, J. H. W. '31 Back 20 165 5.8 Exeter Cruikshank, H. L. '31 Back 22 168 6. Taft Dunn, K. '31 Back 20 188 6.2 Kent Ellis, H. M. '30 Back 24 165 5.10 Exeter Ferris, D. L. '30 Line 21 185 6.2 Hotchkiss Godman, J. F. '30 End 22 184 6.2 New Haven High Gould, W. A. '32 Back 20 170 5.11 Andover Greene, W. W. '30 Line 23 205 6.1 Lawrenceville Gwin, S. L., Jr. '30 Line 21 195 6.1 Deerfield Hall, A. S. '32 Line 21 195 6.2 Taft Hall...
...trimming but Miss Cross finally found the chalk-lines and won, 6?3, 3?6, 6?3. Mrs. B. C. Covell and Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, runners-up at Wimbledon, continued the visitors' lessons in doubles play for Little Helen's benefit. The latter's partner, Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. 25 times a champion, needed no such instruction, but the final score was 6?2, 6?1 in favor of England...
Californians all were the three youngest members of the U. S. team, and California-born was the fourth member, their coach and leader, donor of the Wightman cup, patriarch of U. S. tennis for women. As Helen Hotchkiss she first won the U. S. championship in 1909 before Betty Nuthall and Helen Jacobs were born and when Helen Wills was a tot. She kept the title until 1912 and then, though "they never come back," rewon it in 1919. Her score of other national titles were amassed in doubles courts and indoors. She gave the Wightman cup six years...