Word: retain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible, said Dr. Clarence Cook Little, 1925-29 president of the University of Michigan, since 1929 student of mouse heredity at Bar Harbor, Me., "to pick the most reactive mice or chickens or dogs by the method we use today to pick our college students and by which we retain them. . . . Co-education is not safe at the present time. . . . Most of the problems of our American students arise from unwise or stupid use of their leisure time...
...decision has finally been reached by the Harvard Athletic Association to retain the one hundred and fifty pound football team for another year, despite the vote of the Student Council to discontinue it, as a hindrance to the success of the House Football teams in their initial year. There are three valid reasons for the lightweight football team: it offers outside competition for a group of men physically unable to compete with an unlimited squad; Princeton will probably enter the field next year, making two opponents; and it is logical to continue a lightweight football team as well...
...leader, who first won Inter-collegiate honors as a Sophomore at the I. C. 4A in the Stadium, with a time of 14 4-5 seconds, this year came from behind to retain his title by beating Clark of Cornell with a clocking of 14 3-5 seconds, the third time the distance has been run at that speed in 55 years of I. C. 4A competition. Record, who ran five heats on the opening day narrowly missed gaining double honors when he trailed Payne of the Trojans by ten inches in the furlong event. His two times...
Despite its imposing victories over Princeton, Tech, Navy, and Penn, the Crimson is not the favorite. It goes up against two unbeaten crews in Cornell and Syracuse, and in Cornell is found the general choice to retain unbeaten laurels. Syracuse, forced by the sudden collapse of stroke Millon Weiler to make its erstwhile-University the Jayvee boat and to elevate the heavier but slower Tom Lombard shell to the first ranks, has lost ground in the pre-race expectations, while Tech, greatly improved, is taken into altogether too little consideration...
...that, while those most closely associated with the practical work of the university were in favor of abolition, the majority made up of country parsons, and majority made up of country parsons, and men of that class, proud of their own scholarship, and loving the old authors, voted to retain the compulsory feature...