Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continually under suspicion. The professors are terrified by the fear that undergraduates will concentrate in literature because it is a snap. They throw overboard all principles of sane scholarship and intelligent teaching in order to make their courses hard. Fearing intelligence, because it sometimes passes examinations without working, they place emphasis on unimportant facts. The general examination of 1929 shows the disastrous effects of such a theory. There is no question longer than twenty minutes, and all these little problems deal with trivialities, such as Swift's verse, or Charles Kingsley as a poet and novelist...
...recent development of intra-mural athletics under what have often been trying conditions is a tribute both to his ability and to the wisdom of Harvard's policy of athletics for all. Next year the new gymnasium will give intramural athletics much greater usefulness, and will help to place Mr. Bingham's program on a firm and sound basis...
...Harvard freshman star, J. W. Fobes '32, was a victor in the trials. Running against J. O. Wildes '29 in a mile race, he won in 4 minutes 31 3-5 seconds. According to Coach E. L. Farrell, however, this does not mean that Wildes is excluded from a place on the team, since it is possible that he and Leslie Flaksman '29 will run a special two-mile race to determine the final place among the American distance runners...
...above totals were arrived at by awarding four points to the winner in each sport, three to second place, two for third place, and one for the last team. The complete table of inter-dormitory spring sports results follows: Baseball Crew Tennis Total Smith 2 1/2 4 4 10 1/2 Standish 4 0 2 1/2 6 1/2 McKinlock 2 1/2 3 1 6 1/2 Gore...
...similar murder took place but a short while past near Niagara Falls and struck horror in the breasts of everyone sensitive enough to experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...