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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freedley, when at Harvard, played on the University football squad in 1913, the year Yale was beaten 15-5 and Princeton was also defeated 30. He was a member of the University Glee Club, the Hasty Pudding Club, writing the music for one of the Hasty Pudding shows, the Delphic Club, and the Cercle Francais. From Harvard he went to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied...
...chess team representing Harvard lead a team from Princeton who finished second to the University in the last annual tournament of the H-Y-P-W. College Chess League, 2 to 1 after an afternoon session Saturday. Although originally it was planned to contest this first match of this year's tournament on five boards, due to the non-appearance of one of the Tiger men, only four were used...
...expense of F. J. La Fleur, captain of the Princeton team, the Crimson captain, F. R. G. Chevalier '29, winner of the individual championship last year, won on the first board, by the use of a strong offensive. Chevalier scored after 36 moves...
...Robinson '31 was defeated on the second board by J. C. Coatman of Princeton, G. F. Gravell '28 sent Harvard into the lead with a win over J. C. Webster in a Vienna opening which went to 39 moves, and F. N. Rich '29, and S. Emery of the Tigers after emerging from a Scotch opening in which Emery had the white side, adjourned their game evenly matched...
...outstanding movement in academic institutions throughout the country. The "capacity test" of the Columbia Law School, in this respect, is just an extension of the "psychological test" administered by Columbia University to entrants and the "scholastic aptitude test", a regular part of undergraduate entrance machinery at Princeton and Yale, but employed only perfunctorily at Harvard. For many the advisibility of the "capacity test" will, however, have to be proven. At present it may be pointed out that, although its advantages are evident, time alone will prove its efficiacy in weeding out the undesired element...