Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amherst has found its path rough this season, with victories few and far between, but the team has been improving of late and the Crimson cannot afford to rate the visitors too lightly. Yale has bested Amherst 6 to 1, Princeton has pounded out a 7 to 0 white wash, and the Army and Virginia both ran their scores into the double figures in beating the team from Western Massachusetts. To offset these reverses, there are no more impressive victories than a 4 to 0 shutout of Tufts and a 14 to 4 batfest at the expense of Trinity...
...turning to the Senatorial field he will lose his place in the House, whether or not elected Senator, whether or not he secures even the Republican nomination. He has cast his all upon the throw and if he loses probably will not care to try again. At any rate he has made certain that there will be a contest over the Speakership in the next Congress...
...believe an advertisement published in the Chicago Tribune the day following Liberty's appearance on the newsstands, there had been sold in one day the entire first issue-725,000 copies. (According to another account in the Tribune the number was 735,000-at any rate, a great number...
...order to win a cash prize of $100 each. Yet each of the four players in this group felt that the glory more than balanced their bank account. They were a burning manifestation of local pride. Their group was established three years ago because the famine of first-rate touring attractions in Dallas spurred that town on to show that they could afford to ignore Broadway...
...beside foreigners uphold his views. "Nine people out of ten believe that the way to train a boy to think is to impart as much knowledge to him as possible. They do not distinguish between the possession of information and the power or habit of thought; or at any rate they assume that if you can secure the former, the latter follows as a matter of course. In no other field of life do we meet this confusion. No sensible man could think that the way to train a boy to ride was to give him as many horses...