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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of Coach Barnaby's team centers mainly around the first two men, Dave Burt and Captain Langdon Gilkey, who also form the number one doubles pair. These two players are very evenly matched; thus far Burt has kept the number one position because of his impressive record in outside matches, despite the fact that Gilkey won the only test match they have played. The secret of Burt's success is his steadiness and accuracy combined with an extraordinarily fine competitive temperament which has brought him victory over Mattman, Bellis, and Ryder, number one of Miami, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina...
Captain Gilkey possesses the most powerful strokes on the team and a rapidly improving not game makes him as strong a number two player as there is in the East. At the number three position is John Palfrey whose suddenly acquired control brought him victory in his last two starts. Right below him is his doubles partner, Walter Muther, who has jumped up from ninth position since last year by virtue of a fast all around game. Occasional erratic spells in his game are his only weakness...
Holding down the number five post is Chet Legg whose lack of success in outside matches is no indication of his ability. His problem is to play as well in matches as he can in practice. 'Filling out the first six is Jack Stewart, whose long reach and dogged fight make up for what he lacks in fluency of stroke. This first team is composed entirely of Juniors and the improvement they have shown bodes very well for next year...
Government I, French E, and Economics A, all large survey courses, had the next largest survey courses, had the next largest number of enrolled students who tutor, the upperclassman returns revealed. Government I, the second on the tutoring list, however, lags far behind its companion course in the social sciences...
...position of the Master is not an enviable one. He must interview a large group of men in a very short time, and make a selection, based not on a simple criterion such as scholastic standing, which, as the editorial admits, would be unfair, but rather on a large number of factors, such as interest in outside activities, friends in the House, accessibility to a desired tutor, and the number of rooms available in the applicant's price range...