Word: overshadowing
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...Basketball "earned a little money for the first time in 15 years" last winter because of the popular double-headers scheduled in the Boston Garden in conjunction with such colleges as B.C. and Holy Cross. Hockey seems to be on its way up, although Yale and Dartmouth teams still overshadow the Crimson, the Elis having the use of a rink daily and Dartmouth having natural too while all Boston teams struggle to share what little artificial ice there is. Wrestling, attracted crowds last winter which bordered on Indoor Building basketball turnouts. Bingham attributed this to the popularity of Coach Clarence...
...Math A particularly, scholarly pursuits are allowed to overshadow undergraduate interests. A group of students with heterogeneous secondary school preparation is met by a group of teaching fellows of equally, heterogeneous teaching ability. In this case, the Department is concerned with research at long range, turning out graduate students for faculty jobs here or elsewhere. Experience in teaching will add to their qualifications and Math A is their only proving ground. The Department partially recognizes the faults of this system but goes not farther than trying to help the teacher get oriented. Again it is the student who pays. More...
Where to live is the question that will overshadow all others, especially for the first weeks of this record-smashing term, but the Housemasters and the higher officers in the Faculty fix their limits, not on the availability of mere shelter but on the extent to which the inevitable crowding will affect the intangibles considered important adjuncts to ordinary classroom work...
...Robert College stands at the Bosporus narrows, where Europe and Asia are only 800 yards apart. Its 19th Century buildings overshadow a 15th Century Turkish fort (see cut). Engineers trained at Robert have built modern Turkey's factories, railroads and sewage systems. Basketball, softball, other U.S. sports have spread through Turkey from the college. Robert's noted students: Bulgaria's first education minister; a confidential secretary of the late President of Turkey, Ismet Inönü; Editor Gilbert Grosvenor of the National Geographic (his father taught there...
...relations with Russia at present overshadow all international relations...