Word: retarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven for the abolition of lightweight football as a stop in their retrenchment program. With the Blue team unavailable as an opponent next year, there would be no point in having a Harvard lightweight team. With these considerations in mind, the present move seems to do little else than retard the natural growth of House athletics for a year...
...counsel argued that higher education is for everyone, that Miss West, daughter of a taxpayer, had a right to hers. She won her case, but a higher court reversed the decision last December. Reason: a pupil who falls below a set standard must not be allowed to retard his fellows...
Northwestern may train its prodigies minds; it will not be serving their best interests. Perhaps the best solution for the problem of the intellectually advanced student would be to retard him early in his school career rather than to delay his entrance into college after graduation from preparatory school. He would then suffer no loss of interest in intellectual matters when his powers were maturing, and could still enter college with the preparatory class with he graduated, fully equipped to participate in all branches of activity...
...lending; a continuation of our present tariff policy will mean that we shall intensify future depressions, an we have the present one, by attracting gold which the rest of the world can ill afford to lose and by menacing the stability of many weak currencies. In addition, we shall retard the revival of business, because the countries which have been forced off the gold standard or which have had the stability of their currencies seriously threatened, will, even after the revival is under way, not easily obtain credit to but goods from the rest of the world...
...strictly educational point of view. Its social functions have tended either to ignore or impede the proper work of the colleges, so that to the average dean fraternities have been objects of toleration rather than causes of complacency. And the era of gold-brick prosperity did little to retard their centrifugal tendencies...