Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might undertake to prevent the abuse and to promote the ultmate utility of specialization by making an effort to insure, as far as possible, that students shall be exposed to a broadly conceived and coherently organized body of general knowledge during some definite period of the college years that precede the intensive specialization of graduate study and professional training. Such an organization of subject matter could be made possible only by the courageous willingness of educators to be tentatively dogmatic in saying what subject matter will best induct the student into an understanding of his contemporary world, of the forces...
...what standards is it possible to measure the armaments of one country against the armaments of another; that is, numbers, period of service, equipment, expenditures...
...Freshman game the Blue started out with a whirlwind attack, which netted four goals in the first period. Varden started the scoring for Yale when, shortly after the opening whistle, he broke through the Crimson defense, and slipped the ball into...
...example, Boston Latin School, the largest high school on Harvard's entrance lists, has increased the number of its Freshman from 19 in 1916 to 96 in 1925. In the same period, Phillips Exeter Academy, which tops the private school group, has increased its entering group from...
...ceased in France. The only break in the continuity of the college championships came when the 1917 meet was cancelled because of more important things. In the eighth year stretch before the war two full college generations no less than six events averaged better than in the post-war period of similar length. One reason for this odd development traces to the presence of two of the world's most wonderful athletes in the pre-war era: John Paul Jones of Cornell and Ted Meredith of Penn. But that does not explain why the furlong sprint, the shot...