Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President was told that the very life-breath of Republicanism in Kentucky depended upon the Lucas appointment as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. President Hoover reluctantly acquiesced. Good man though Kentucky's Lucas might prove to be, he did not, at face value, represent the big-bore, experienced businessman that had been prescribed by Treasury chiefs and first-class Senators to administer the vital tax-collecting branch of the Government...
...great weakness of the organization of the employment offices at Harvard today lies in their lack of co-ordination. I believe the committee might have stressed this point: the director of vocational guidance must not be merely another isolated unit
...good record at these tests. Since low admission grades rank only third in the list of causes of poor standing in college, there are evidently other factors than that of proficiency at passing the entrance examinations to be considered in estimating a man's success after matriculation. Among these might be mentioned the familiar demand for greater correlation between the teaching methods of the school and the college so as to facilitate the transition. Such elements are only just beginning to be appreciated by the authorities of the secondary schools, and a further increase in the admission requirements would only...
...Thursday, when he shut out Boston College and held that team to a lone safety. Dobens, however, who twirled the Crusaders last year to victory over Harvard, may start, and will almost certainly see action if the Crimson bats get going. Coach Barry indicated last night that he might start Hebert, who held the Quantico Marines to three scattered singles, or the portsided Sims. In case the latter is called upon for mound duty, B. H. Ticknor '31 will play the center garden, but if a right hander pitches, E. R. Todd '29 will get the assignment...
...Penn, Williams, and Yale, Harvard would usually lose two or three of the singles matches to the luminaries of the opposing team, Yale's Ryan and Luce, Penn's Stanger and Lavine, William's Wolf and Chase, N. Y. U.'s Harte and Tarangoli as the case might be. But meeting the same men paired in the doubles matches, the Harvard team would come back to capture two or three of the trio of dual contests, to the same pairs that had originally quashed the Crimson players individually...