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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lower brackets of the class. The ruling is as follows: ". . . much weight will be attached to character, personality, and promise, as well as to scholarly attainments. Satisfactory showing in the last of these qualifications alone is not of itself sufficient to guarantee admission." What apparently establishes a sharp departure from all existing precedents is qualified in the next sentence by the statement that "the Committee, however, will give, as heretofore, preference to all candidates qualifying in the regular way. . . whose examination average is unquestionably good (75 percent or higher). . . .". thus promptly making an exception to the ruling immediately preceding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW ADMISSION POLICY | 3/26/1926 | See Source »

...debaters of all three universities for a question with possibilities for an exercise of humor. After the debate the Coolidge prize of $100 will be awarded to that member of the debating teams who has shown the most ability in the preparations for the Triangular debates. Coach H. P. Sharp 1L. will pick the recipient of this prize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAMS ARE PICKED FOR TRIANGULAR DEBATES | 3/24/1926 | See Source »

CRADLE SNATCHERS-A sharp and bawdy tale of three amorous ladies who refused to concede their years of discretion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Mar. 22, 1926 | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...DYBBUK-Religious mysticism clarified by a startlingly sharp and stimulating production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Mar. 22, 1926 | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...tools of the trade itself. Even at Harvard the elective system broke down, without a counterbalance and concentration and distribution were introduced. But the ultimate upshot has not been that chaos of curriculum tinkering of which President Frank complains, and in consequence there is no place for that sharp prescriptive retrenchment which he advocates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE AND WISCONSIN | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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