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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this preparation. The school realizes that the business leader must have aptitude, character, initiative; and that no sort of instruction or experience will make good the absence of these native qualities in the student. But for young men of the right natural quality it believes that its training should shorten a good deal the path to high executive positions; and that its graduates, when they have reached those positions, will be more efficient by reason of their broader training than are the men of the same quality who have had to take the longer and narrower path of growing...
...rowing 38 and Harvard about 28. At that rate almost throughout the race, the visiting crew easily drew away from the Harvard eight, and at no time was the outcome in doubt. Even at the finish, with Yale far in the lead, Harvard failed to raise the stroke and shorten the distance between the two shells...
...order to shorten the winter track season, the 780-yard relay race with Pennsylvania, which was announced to take place at Hartford, Conn., on March 1 has been cancelled. The short distance relay team will race the B. A. A. at the Coast Artillery meet to be held in the South Armory, Boston, on January...
...still on trial; if it can evolve a system which will develop broad-minded processes it will succeed; but the problem is at present complicated in the larger universities by the presence of professional schools, which, by drawing men away from college in three or even two years, shorten the period in which they have the opportunity for acquiring this wide scope, and thereby stunt their intellectual development...
...inclined to be short, and does not finish with sufficient drive. Sargent still shows a tendency to be late on the recovery, but errs less in this respect on the port than on the starboard side. Cutler does not straighten his arms at the catch and is inclined to shorten his slide...