Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...denied that, although there are frequent exceptions, many instructors tend to use the same lectures year after year with only slight modifications, grinding out stereotyped ideas in rapid succession without any indication that they are being absorbed by the class. Not without cause, therefore, has the lecture system been defined as the "process of transferring the notes of the instructor to the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either...
...Boyden '21 are expected to place in the 220 and dive respectively. The B. U. relay team is not fast and the University swimmers should be able to win them easily. On the whole the teams seem to be fairly evenly matched, with the Crimson tankmen having a slight advantage over their opponents...
With prospects for a most successful season, the team scored decisive victories over Cushing Academy and St. George's respectively, and then defeated the weak New Hampshire State five by only a slight margin, showing a decided slump in their work. They displayed better all-around work against the Went-worth Institute five, however, but slumped again against Andover Academy, being defeated by the Blue, 30-32, in an overtime game on the Academy floor...
...tank yesterday afternoon, 34-19 The Freshmen showed better form than before. In the fancy-diving, H. W. Spencer and Alberto Terrsaas Jr. won first and second places respectively. While Captain F. P. Petter was besten by Algar of Huntington in the fifty yard by but a slight margin...
Unless the present administration advance and active interest in the international affairs of Europe, another war, a war that would mean practically the destruction of civilization, will have only comparatively slight obstacles in its way. This is the strong belief of Major Herbert S. Johnson '91 who, sensing in the common spirit and ambition of the German people a further challenge for the supremacy of the earth, has felt it his duty to warn us of danger; he has given up the ministry to do this more efficiently. From may, 1919, through the summer months, Major Johnson worked...