Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enter to grow in wisdom", sustained by the labor of men of scholarly attainment, it is fitting that Harvard Should each year be honored by its sons through the adoption of the garb which best symbolizes its purpose and meaning. Any-one who is not willing to pay this slight tribute to his Alma Mater, must have profited but little by his four years at Cambridge...
...more than probable that Columbia will not present such a formidable opposition as the Southerners. The Morningside team has been playing rather raggedly, and presented slight opposition to Yale on April 13, both of their pitchers being hit freely by the Blue batters...
...years. At present the outlook is very favorable. The Penn State track team is already well under way. A comparison of its record so far this season with the results of the time trials held by the University team on Thursday seem to show that the Crimson has a slight advantage over the Blue and White. The University of Pennsylvania track team, whom the University meets on Saturday, has not been tried out in competition yet this spring, and its strength is still problematical; but the Red and Blue has a reputation for turning out good teams and this year...
...noted at the beginning, this is merely a series or superficial observations, too slight to afford a basis for any deductions or conclusions. We saw nothing that would lead us to question the validity of the various thoughtful accounts of economic and social conditions of which appropriate periodicals have recently carried a full share
...this state of affairs. The coaching staff which has had charge of University track affairs for the past ten or twelve years came into power at a time when specialization in track events was just beginning. As a result, men who had previously had school experience had a slight advantage over men without such experience upon entering College. Unfortunately the coaching staff believed that school stars were necessary for a successful track team, and so paid little attention to the development of raw material. At about this time track men from Exeter, Andover and other schools which made a specialty...