Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victory over New Hampshire? Either alternative is undesirable in the extreme, and it is the task of the Committee to find a path that will lead between these poles on some middle course. That is, it must develop a policy which will bring at least a fair average of success in conflict and yet will avoid the creation of a group of semi-professional athletes, whose existence in the University is justified solely by their prowess on the field of battle...
...late successes on the football field, together with the near prospect of a game with Yale, has awakened a lively interest in football throughout the College. It is well known that Harvard declined to join the Association of Colleges, owing to the radical difference of our rules from those of the various other colleges. Though in so doing we laid ourselves open to criticism yet an impartial observer must assent on consideration to the expediency of our decision. We did not in the least assert that our rules were the best: nor, as a Yale paper unjustly remarked...
...regards the coming match with Yale, it is much to be hoped that our team will meet with the success due to their late meritorious efforts; and it is quite probable that, notwithstanding a few peculiarities in the new rules, an exciting and interesting game will be seen on Saturday...
Credit for the success of the band is due in a large degree to two men, to Franklin Anderson, director, orchestrator, and baton-waver extraordinary, and to director Guy Slade in whose nightmares must course new schemes for dotting an i amid endless streams of running bandsmen. To these men, and to the members of the band for the interest they have shown, and for the work they have expended, Harvard extends her thanks...
...mentions several methods of dealing with dyslexia cases which have been used with moderate success. Among them is the system employed by Hinshelwood, an English physician, who first dealt with a number of these cases by resorting to the discarded alphabet method of learning to read by spelling out the words orally. This, Dr. Dearborn says, at least guaranteed the right direction of eye movements and their correlation with a sequence of letter sounds. For older children, typewriting has been utilized. This has the merit of being a bi-manual activity, and is thus suited to the ambi-dextrous...