Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of today's contest will be of especial interest to those who wish to predict the comparative strength of the Crimson and Blue nines, for the latter, although defeated twice earlier in the season, batted its way to a 7-3 victory on June 1. The two games next week for the University, against Fordham and Tufts, are the last before the Yale series...
...business charts by the height of the "peak" reached by the prosperity and depression lines either above or below the "X Y" line of normality. But by this system, although "peaks" above and below the line succeeded each other, they were not regular, and it was impossible to predict the height of one peak from those that preceded it. While working in a Boston business Mr. Babson discovered that prosperity and depression should be measured by the area above and below the "X Y" line and that equal areas of prosperity and depression followed one another...
...influence of a graduate in authority. This has been secured by placing Bingham in charge of the team. His own conspicuous success on the track not only because of his running abilities but because of his fighting spirit are bound to enlist many candidates for the team, and I predict that within two years there will be found among the men now in college many point-winners, and that within two years an increasing number of Harvard men will realize, the charm and joy of spirited contests on track and field. Harvard men should enthusiastically work with Captain O'Connell...
...mile runners, and from all indications he should head them at the finish tomorrow. The relay team is hard to pick. Captain O'Connell will surely run, and Wheaton will probably be picked for lead-off man. Who the other two men will be is hard to predict, as they will not be chosen until just before the race...
...however, predict a change in the forward pass rule to permit no passes beyond the line of scrimmage but to allow any number behind it without restriction as to receivers or passers, and every pass to be played whether caught...