Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...H.Y.P debates were omitted this year for two reasons. In the first place the triangle was not included, as in former years, on the League schedule, but Brown and Wesleyan were substituted instead. In the second place, the Chairman of the Princeton Speaker's Union, who had charge of the arrangements for this year (not Harvard), informed us that he had written Yale and that they were "not interested" in holding the debate, presumably because it was not included on the League schedule and would have meant extra preparation and expense. Moreover he said that the debate could...
...class B group, Brockton High collected 20 1-2 points to top Newton and Lawrence High Schools, the leading competitors, who tied for second with 15 apiece. The outstanding feature in this class was the performance of Klauer of Browne and Nichols School who did the low hurdles in 14 3-5 seconds, tieing the record made last year by E. E. Record '32 of Brookline, recently elected captain of the Freshman runners this year...
Arlington High gathered, 17 points to give it a three point lead over Malden and David Prouty High of Spencer who were tied for second in the class C group. Some of the best performances of the day were exhibited in this class, several of the participants equalling or bettering the results of the class A athletes...
...group by 11 inches. Another feature of the class C events was the high jumping of Moissio of Fitchburg who established a new record with a 5 foot, 11 1-2 inch jump, equalling the winning mark of class A. Hayes of Somerville took one fifth of a second the low hurdles record set by Monty Wells in 1924, but he toppled the last hurdle which disallowed the time as a record...
...halt the sea. And perhaps Iowa is far enough away from it to enable him to do so. The Canute in question is Dr. T.T. Shields, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Des Moines University, who has fired his entire faculty for modernistic views. This is the second purging of sin from the Baptist institution, from which all evolutionists and geologists were expelled two years ago. The students have responded with eggs, a protest older than Genesis...