Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been shown by careful experiment that poetry, the multiplication table, and the telegraphic code can be taught in a shorter time when the student was in hypnotic sleep. This is a great lead to those who want to know How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. I believe that the dear Mr. Nolan, a very shrewd man, would use the idea if he were alive today. Backward students could be lulled to knowledge while they reclined peacefully on their Davenports after a night of ribald revelry. Or the good Widow might have made Trilbys of them and sent them...
...Means, Medical Assistant in Hygiene. Dr. Means stated that most of the Freshmen physical examinations which obliged further study were the results of heart trouble and that a special effort was made in such cases to determine the amount of activity, physical exercise in particular, which would lead to general health and yet avoid heart strain...
...called early due to the appearance of one of the proctors and the roughness of the playing surface. The play, however, was started early the next evening and the two undisputed champions were crowned that evening. Since then the rivalry has been keener and teams get the league lead only to lose it soon again...
...Crimson superiority on the basketball court did not extend to the Harvard-Yale freshman contest Saturday night, the Blue first-year men outscoring their opponents 46 to 24. The contest was won by the better team-work and more accurate shooting of the Eli Freshmen. They took the lead early in the game and had little trouble in running up their 22-point advantage...
...play of the first period was fully as even and hard-fought as the experts had forecasted. The lead swayed from the Crimson to the Blue, and then back to the Crimson again, the period finally ending with Harvard leading 9 to 8. Both teams sought to keep up a strong defensive, relying for the offense on long shots...