Word: shut
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...direction, towards the cleansing of the English taught, or rather left untaught, in the elementary schools. If-now a demand for better English is accompanied with a liberal system of entrance requirements such as Harvard has introduced, we can see the demolition of the above argument that college demands shut out proper training in English...
...years of college; and of the dozen students who ranked highest at entrance, some were in the lowest fifth of the class by Junior year. "There is," says Professor Thorndike, "every reason to believe that of those students who did yet worse in their entrance examinations, and so were shut out, a fairly large percentage would have done better in college than a third of those who were admitted." It is a "moral attrocity," he believes, to depend upon such a fallible system...
...high hurdles A. L. Jackson '14 and J. B. Cummings '13 shut out Potter, Yale's best hurdler, in the first heat. T. O. Freeman '14 and E. F. Smith of Yale were the qualifying men in the other trial heat. It the final heat Jackson equaled the dual record; Captain Cummings took second place, while the Yale man won the remaining point. The furlong race over the timbers was one of the Harvard disappointments for in this race, Captain Cummings was the only man to place and took third...
Frye was at his best yesterday and pitched the University team to a shut-out victory over Syracuse on Soldiers Field. The final score was 3 to 0. Frye's work was by far the best exhibition of pitching that has been seen here this season. He not only held the visitors to one scratch hit but did not give a base on balls throughout the nine innings. Only twenty nine men faced him during the game and in seven innings he disposed of the first three...
...Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the third game of the week. It will be Colby's third game, the Maine team having been twice defeated by Dartmouth on Wednesday and Thursday. Colby's weakness seems to lie in uncertain fielding. Last year Colby was shut out 7 to 0 by Harvard. The University squad held very light practice yesterday in consideration of the fact that this is the third game in five days...