Word: places
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming season. Its aim this year is to get men who are outstanding in their field. The quality of the speakers is to be maintained even at the expense of quantity. The list will not be completed for several weeks and the first address will not take place before November...
...make Germanic Culture live as did Kuno Francke, but it is to be hoped that the committee's plan of several short tenures of the chair during the first few years of its existence will bring to light some man worthy and willing to take a permanent place in this position: The sooner such a permanent incumbent on be found the better, for the supply of possible candidates for such a place is strictly limited as the difficulty of annually finding men for the Norton chair has shown. And it is only through a somewhat continuous exertion of their influence...
Securely in third position ranks football, with 137 first-year men having signed up for the squads-under-Head Freshman Coach A. E. French '29 and A. W. Somborski '25 in place of but 116 last fall...
Singles as a form of exercise has regained its former position of fourth in popularity by attracting 62 candidates, which number, although less than last year and the year before, holds its place because of the decline in popularity of track, which last fall 'crew the unusually large squad of 83 candidates, as compared with 49 of the Class of 1933, and 47 of 1931 in its Freshman year...
This year, there is one new activity, which fulfills the requirements for Freshman physical exercise that of being in competition for one of the managerial positions. Three of last fall's occupations, one of which held sixth place in the ranking, have failed to make their appearance for the Class of 1933. Squash, which drew but three aspirants in 1928, and the gymnasium class, which has annually attracted a small number of Freshmen, are not listed this fall, while Equitation, heretofore an activity which had 40 to 50 followers, is no longer a satisfactory requirement for the demands...