Word: paces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred or more years ago the outlines of a college education were simple. In the centuries immediately preceding knowledge had not increased at a pace so rapid but that educators could digest, interpret, and relate to previous knowledge the new knowledge as it appeared. But with the nineteenth century the invigorating winds of a new critical and scientific spirit began to blow across the world. The scientific spirit began hunting, blasting, boring, probing, boiling, cooking, and dissecting. Men, animated by the Itch to know, began to dig up, at a disconcerting rate, all sorts of new, facts and new knowledge...
...University boat stroked by Dudley Merrill '26, who is winding up his third season as pace setter for the Crimson light weights, will retain the same seating as in the Big Three regatta. Ganz is at bow, with number 2, Jenney; 3, Pool; 4, Bowditch; 5, Collins; 6, Taft; 7, Whiteside; stroke, Merrill, and cox, Gross...
Although on Saturday the heavy 1929 eight again defeated the University crews, Coach Stevens will have the same oarsmen in the shells that have rowed since the Princeton race with one exception. Yesterday Howe, who has been stroking the third crew recently, replaced Scudder in the pace-setter's seat of the second boat...
Dudley Merrill '26, stroke of this year's light weight crew, stroked the Crimson to its first victory two years ago and again set the pace for the victorious Harvard crew last year...
These changes in the sport, along with the greatly faster game, brought about such demands on the man in the way of endurance, that it became necessary to reduce the halves to 30 minutes each. When the halves were 45 minutes, as in the old game, the swift pace invariably told, and the game slowed down as it neared its close. Today, the whole game is played at lightning speed, and the greatest thrills are found in the last moments of a close fought game...