Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hector Dowd is a fairly dependable Junior flinger, George Smith has good posibilities, and John Corny has pitched before. But that's about as far as it goes. Coach Coakley's starting nine, however, is not definitely decided, because wide-open fights are still being waged for several positions...
This is the fourth of a series of talks open to any member of the University, sponsored by the counsellors in each of the Houses...
Beneath the placid security of America's little-red-school-houses, a disease is festering which threatens to undermine public education. Americans boast of their youth, their open minds, their opportunities to learn and think for themselves. But the facts behind these boasts ring false. The sickness has spread until there is a shortage of schools, a lack of funds to maintain them, until their teachers are underpaid and often have never gone beyond high school themselves. The highest standards of a few rich cities and states cannot compensate for the slough of rural America...
During the past ten years, the tutors have left themselves open to attack both legally and ethically. Publishers and authors have at various times sued the schools under the copyright laws; and the University has secured injunctions for notes on lectures which are the "common law" property of the College...
...British philosopher stated that there are there courses open to America today. She can state her neutrality, and stay out of the next war; or state her neutrality and enter the war--although this is unlikely now. "However," he said, "more good will be done by making it appear that she actually will come...