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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today's match should prove a more severe test, although last year's Freshman team defeated the Academy with comparative ease. Ingraham and Briggs are counted on as almost certain winners and with this handicap, it is probable that the Freshmen can chalk up another victory on their record...
...yard low hurdle race will undoubtedly be one of the best of the afternoon. Hulman has done some good work in this event as well as in the tall timbers, but Fitts is expected to prove his superior. Fitts is big and fast, with a long stride, and excellent form. He comes will a rush at the end, and this, added to his other qualifications should enable him to finish ahead of the Ell, and swell the Crimson total by five points. Hulman should be close on his heels. With Whitney, Hauers, and Thayer contesting the Elis right to second...
...today rejoice with you in this first step toward restoration. It makes me particularly happy that my own countrymen have had the privilege of sharing in this noble undertaking, and it is my hope that the friendship between the University of Louvain and the universities of America will prove to be one of the strong ties which hold the two nations together...
...elimination on the basis of scholarship is no more effective. Too many men enter college with high grades only to prove themselves unprepared to make the most of their opportunities by graduating "viser but not vider" as Mr. Weller expressed it. Others who barely pass their C.E.E.B.'s become the outstanding men in their class not only in social affairs but scholastically as well. As a remedy for this difficulty Columbia has instituted mental tests for admission and the Harvard Business School has also been experimenting with them in an effort to provide an equable basis on which to work...
...There is no doubt Jefferson and the old line "strict constructionists" would suffer grievous shocks today. More and more is the tendency becoming evident to turn to Washington to take up every problem that is proving in the least cantankerous for private interests to handle. "The Government" has become the magic formula for solving every difficulty and curing all ills. This is all the more curious in view of the Government's experience in operating private industry during the war. To prove this it is only necessary to turn to the railroads. There the outstanding evidence of Government control...