Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Point Cadets appear on the 1940 schedule on Oct. 19, followed on the succeeding Saturday by another Dartmouth invasion. Another interesting feature of the 1940 playing dates is that Brown makes its bow in Cambridge on Nov. 16, just one short week before the traditional Yale encounter...
...from last year's Jayvee crew. His stroke seems to stay fairly smooth consistently. In front of him in the six position is Quinby Taylor, six foot, six inch giant, who, because of his height just about confines his rowing to his arms. This is accentuated by the unusually short stroke that Harvard crews use. He pulls the most water in the boat but seems to have trouble with timing his catch. He came up from the combination crew last spring...
Economically, no system of "guidance" will be acceptable that is not available to everyone, rich or poor. But the impracticability is more fundamental than this. The "guide" would have to turn away all who came seeking a short-cut to wisdom. And not content with thus reducing his revenue, he would have to get rid of his remaining clients in short order. The very purpose of "guidance" is to put the student on his own in the shortest possible space of time...
After twenty-one years of teaching at Harvard, John Livingston Lowes has given his last lecture, Yesterday at noon, he walked into Sever 11, ascended the rostrum, and gave a short talk on Robert Herrick, the seventeenth century lyricist. Thus with the gay lines of the poet, he wrote "Finis" to his long career as one of the foremost scholars of his time a career that is remarkable in its contribution to learning. Dr. Lowes, apart from having gained invaluable experience in colleges throughout the country, has written many books on English Literature. His "The Road to Xanadu...
DETROIT Mich, (UP) Columbia Lou Gehrig's great iron-man baseball record was abruptly cut short yesterday at 2130 consecutive games, and his mates took the occasion to go on a scoring spree and pound out 22 runs against the liap less Detroit Tigers...