Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Julius Seligson of Lehigh defeated Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29 after a three-set match to keep the Harvard tennis team from whitewashing the Lehigh netmen on, Divinity Courts yesterday afternoon. The Crimson won eight out of nine matches...
...foundation that has been laid at Harvard by the tutorial system. There are, however, many other plans of similar intent now in operation in various places. Meiklejohn has at Wisconsin a college where there is no classroom teaching, and the emphasis is on joint research. Rollins College has set its students free from all formal routine for an experimental term of six months. Honor students at Swarthmore and elsewhere take no "courses" at all in their last two years, but spend their time getting ready for the final comprehensive examinations...
...book of which first edition copies have sold at $50, was interviewed by a young reporter. He said: ". . . Collecting first editions is not a good habit to get into. It is a minor indication of an age that is losing the essential approach to books. ... I have never set foot in Peru...
...with a face that could stop a thousand asparagus tips). She moons for a rising young realtor, but is made to stay at home and wash the dishes while her sister goes out with him. Later, the realtor tells Patsy that she must cultivate Personality; so she gets a set of books which enable her to amaze her family with such casual remarks...
...ghost of a show in a nation-wide contest with Smith, and the policy of backing the winner is claiming more and more of them as the Smith delegates pile up. Hoover, to be sure, is making even greater inroads into the strength of the various "favorite sons" set up by his enemies, but that is all the more reason for the Democrats to imitate his tactics. As for the public, the chances are becoming brighten that for the first time in many years the most prominent men in both parties will face each other with more or less conflicting...