Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These announcements were confirmed yesterday following the announcement of the appointment of C. J. Gallagher as Freshman football coach. Contrary to many rumors the coaching personnel has undergone a slight shifting rather than a radical changing...
...alleviated the problem of dealing with those who are not promoted to the Sophomore class. Since the number of these so-called dropped Freshmen is expected to be smaller this year, more leniency will be used by the Administrative Board in admitting to the Houses those whose deficiencies are slight. Those whose status forbids their taking full advantage of the House Plan are to be quartered, not in a body, as before, but in various dormitories outside the Yard...
...Preaching is doomed," cried a preacher last week at the Northern Baptist Convention in Washington. He was Dr. Bernard Chancellor Clausen, slight, blond, emphatic pastor of Syracuse, N. Y.'s First Baptist Church, a onetime Navy chaplain and communications officer on the U. S. cruiser North Carolina. Dr. Clausen began broadcasting sermons in 1920. He now speaks eight or ten sentences to "appropriate" music in a morning radio service, conducts a Saturday night radio Bible class with dramatized Bible stories. Last February Dr. Clausen spoke by air to the "largest audience of Baptists ever assembled," his listeners tuning...
Stanford's total in the meet is expected to be between 40 and 60 points, leading the University of Southern California and Yale. There is a slight chance, however, that Southern California will be able to match the Stanford points, which are safely salted away in the weights. Four men will place in the shot and three in the discus in the finals beginning at 2 o'clock and at 3 o'clock respectively on Saturday. The only pole vault competition will be at 1 o'clock and the high jump a half hour later...
...valuable light on the position of public school men in the colleges. It is evident that the high school graduate has less chance to attain distinction so far as social and extra-curricular activities are concerned, it he goes to a college where prep school men have even a slight numerical majority. On the other hand, where he predominates, the public school man seems to have every change for preferment socially and in campus activities. Indeed, the experience at Dartmouth indicates that where the prep school man is in the ascendant, it is not from any inherent superiority but simply...