Word: retainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Private schools retain their lead over public schools in the number of men admitted but merely by a margin of less than 10 per cent. The percentage of candidates from public schools who were refused is greater than that for private institutions. On the other hand, over 93 per cent of those admitted under the Highest Seventh Plan were from high schools...
Pennsylvania was the Crimson's closest competitor with a total of 95, then came Penn State with 100, N. Y. U. with 129, and Syracuse with 142. Clark Chamberlain, Michigan State runner, who was attempting to retain his last year's crown, annexed second place, but was not counted in the team results as only colleges with five finishing men are able to compete for the trophy. Chamberlain was but five seconds behind Dean, and Parker of N. Y. U. followed...
...down Broadway and climbed up on the top of St. Paul's Chapel. It is possible that the Yale powers-that-be will find these criticisms merely annoying. An article in the magazine, however, Sober Advice to Freshmen, by one of the editors, Richard S. Childs, should, if they retain any powers of self-criticism, fill them with shame. Mr. Childs has drawn for them a picture of Yale as he sees it, the place where gentlemen are manufactured and scholars are laughed at, a shallow, self-seeking, trivial, insincere playground for young bond salesmen to make contacts in before...
Management of the squash courts in four of the seven Houses will be taken over by the H. A. A., it was decided yesterday at a meeting of the Interhouse Athletic Committee. Lowell, Leverett, and Dunster Houses will retain the management of their own courts but have agreed to honor the H. A. A. participation ticket. At the end of the year a lump sum, based upon the number of times tickets have been presented in the course of the year, will be paid each of the recalcitrant Houses to partially cover the cost of upkeep...
...remaining two are larger than the average Canadian wild goose. They retain full plumage. They take annual turns laying eggs, one resting while the other produces...