Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whitbeck '29 reached the final round of the University tennis tournament when he defeated M. T. Hill '30 in the semi-finals yesterday...
...Harvard have become the 48000. A survey of the alumni, made by the Harvard Fund Council, gives the number of alumni in each state, and shows the total to be 47,992. Almost a third of the alumni is in Massachusetts at the present time. Eleven thousand, in round numbers, living in Greater Boston. In New England as a whole, there are 19,451 graduates...
...modern automobile is a cranky, fussy thing. Like cranky, fussy old men, it makes a great to-do over its middle parts. While the motor functions regularly and the wheels go round obediently, the gears between them demand constant nursing. Before the car can run smoothly, these gears must be coaxed from first speed to second, then to third, and in some makes, even into a fourth forward speed. Before they will yield to coaxing, the clutch must be pushed down and let up, the foot accelerator released and pressed down again and the shift lever wiggled about delicately...
...Gary system was installed by Superintendent William Albert Wirt, who last week was obliged to deal with the strikers. The system consists in a year-round school schedule for the purpose of fully utilizing school equipment; and in elective courses, elective vacations, informal grading and self-discipline-to promote mental initiative. In last week's strike, pupils who had presumably been thoroughly Garyized for the past several years, took the law into their own hands. Students of the Gary system recalled that one criticism of it was that it would decrease teachers' influence over pupils...
...draw for the Union tournament will be posted this morning at the Tennis and Squash Shop and at the Union, and the first round should be played by Mon- day night according to Bennett, who stated that the showings in this tournament would have a bearing on the choice of the University indoor net team...