Word: minors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Tarkington has often before but never more mercilessly demonstrated his knowledge of smalltown wives. In Young Mrs. Greeley he involves two of them in a minor tempest which sends one back to her native village, puts the other also in her place, all because of a cool-eyed modern who is neither wife nor smalltown. Crystal Nelson, first assistant to Cooper, the Big Boss, hears that Mr. Greeley's rapid rise in the N. K. U. (National Kitchen Utensils) is due to young Mrs. Greeley's influence with the boss. She traces the gossip to Aurelia, young...
...tested in the divisional examinations; and in the case of honors candidates, a thesis provides a wider proving ground. When a man has passed his divisional requirements, he is excused from final examinations; his courses, having accomplished their purpose, are discarded. And yet a student may be refused a minor honors degree because in the opinion of the faculty perhaps one of the C's appearing in his record should have been a B. The means, in other words, is permitted to overshadow...
...minor sports teams played Yale on Saturday and within the next two weeks the others will have completed their schedules with similar encounters. It is quite possible that the undergraduate committee which has been appointed to investigate the question of a possible revision of minor sports awards, and which is incidentally made up of four seniors connected with major sports, may turn to the outcome of these contests as one of the few concrete indications of whether the present conditions merit change...
...number of years ago this system of awarding the small minor H to those teams that defeated Yale and also won three quarters of their scheduled contests was adopted. At the time this was an intelligent forward step but with the change in the attitude of undergraduates which has taken place recently it has become completely antiquated. Today men are primarily interested in playing the game, and although the desire to win is naturally still a vital factor in all athletic encounters it is not the completely dominant one that it once...
...keeping with such a definite policy and with the gradual increase in equipment of minor sports some revision in the status of awards towards the adoption of a uniform not dependent on the season's scores should be forthcoming at the June meeting of the Athletic Committee which will consider the question...