Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Yankees became mathematically certain of the American League Pennant a month ago, they had won 91 games. By last week, with no particular incentive, they had raised the total to 102, 19½ games ahead of second-place Detroit. Altogether, the team had made 182 home runs, an average of more than one for each game, nine more than the record set by the Philadelphia Athletics in 1932. It set a new major-league record of 992 runs batted in for the season. Five players drove in more than 100 runs each. A grand total...
...awarded annually on the basis of scholastic and literary abilities; moral qualities; under which are considered manhood, truth, courage, and fellowship; force of character and leadership; physical vigor, as demonstrated by interest in outdoor sports. As the committee is on the watch for men who will excel in a particular field, intellect and character will receive more emphasis than the quality of physical vigor...
Last year over 18 men reported the first day and three years ago the turnout exceeded 45. The competition has not been changed in any particular from previous years, and football men are at a loss to account for the shortage of Freshmen...
Posteards will be soul to all Freshmen having signified an interest in Brooks House work giving appointments when they may consult the various committee chairmen to discover where their particular interests and abilities lie. During the next two weeks, a series of nightly trips will afford an opportunity to visit Boston settlement houses...
...have had to resist. Harvard history reveals not a few such episodes. But today the most menacing attack comes, as it has repeatedly in the past, from the political side. In one form it is precipitated by allegedly patriotic organizations committed to maintain in schools and colleges their own particular conceptions of loyalty. The motives of these misguided folk are, I doubt not, often excellent. But they have opened the cover of Pandora's Box and we may well be fearful of the issue. For example, in many schools American history may now be taught only in terms these self...