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Word: pointing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which will continue to as long as its theory and practice of academic tenure remains unchanged. It is the spectacle of the great, impersonal university playing with the lives of its hirelings, using them as long as they are useful to it and discarding them unsystematically. Up to a point this rigorous competition is productive of quality, but as it stands now it is not efficient enough to outweigh its moral undesirability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINE ARTS' LOSS | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

Captain Rusty Greenhood will not meet any important opposition in the dive, but will have an opportunity to roll up a good point total for the New Haven papers to copy. So far this year, Yale's Endweiss has been doing more of this sort of thing than has Greenhood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOPMEN EDGE HUSKIES; MERMEN MEET BOSTON "Y" | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

...that Floyd Stahl, the new baseball coach is over optimistic would be unfair. He merely is looking for and expecting the best. He is full of ideas on how to improve and popularize baseball at Harvard and is positive on one point; "We're going to be a hustling ball club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Baseball Coach Floyd Stahl Expects a Better, Hustling Nine | 2/7/1939 | See Source »

...matter how severe may be the rigors of Franco's regime, I can hardly see the point of aggravating such rigors by prolonging a war which, in the opinion of most, has already been lost . . . Therefore, I oppose a petition of which the utility is extremely problematical and the immediate results unquestionably undesirable. Alan. J. Ansen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO SIDES | 2/7/1939 | See Source »

...hapless Colgaters would have been ignominiously shut out 68 to 7 but for the early lead which Senior breaststroker Frank Ferguson piled up and was able to maintain despite the last-lap challenge of Jack Waldron of the Crimson. This gave them five points in that event instead of their customary one point and boosted their total four above the minimum of seven. The winning time was 2:38, Waldron being nosed out by only a touch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Submerge Colgate Maroons 64 to 11 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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