Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the athletic breach between Harvard and Princeton remains officially as wide as ever, the Crimson and the Princetonian will tomorrow morning take another step toward unofficially spanning the gap. Tomorrow the journalistic nines of the two colleges will meet in their second annual diamond clash. The equipment of the rival teams will probably be more colorful than useful, catchers will catch without masks, base runners will worry little about hit and run or squeeze plays, and few people will probably bother to remember the score. Whatever the outcome, however--whether the game last four or fourteen innings--the occasion...
...schedule of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been added a new course--"humanics". The subject is to prepare the student "to meet the experiences which come when anyone has practical business dealings with someone else"; thus runs the description of the new course. In brief, the purpose of the study is to teach the men not to be egoists and to realize the value of working with the other person for the good of the whole rather than for personal good...
With an evident advantage over their opponents in nine of the 14 events in the dual meet at Hanover Saturday, the University track forces should let the Dartmouth runners down to their fourth defeat in as many seasons. The hope for another Crimson victory lies in its superior power in the 880, mile and two-mile runs, in the broad jump and pole vault, and in the weight events...
...shot and discus. To stack up with these men the Hanoverians will place Phillips and Lyle in the hammer. Harden in the javelin, and McAvoy and Lyle in the shot and discus. The javelin, shot and discus may prove to be the most closely contested events of the meet, with the University holding a slight edge...
From a perusal of Dean Nichols' article it is evident that his position is justified. It is difficult for the large and unwieldy university to escape the charge of impersonalism, and to meet the volleys of those who harry the administration from distant loopholes. No longer can the Harvard student know personally a tenth part of the faculty; and for the man whose standing is secure, the intimate relation of earlier times would hardly be advantageous. In the case of the student balanced on a knife-edge between probation and "passing on", however, personal acquaintance and personal information become...