Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metamorphosis that this view has undergone has undoubtedly been analyzed before by educators but its most recent trend, in fact its present trend, is one of its most interesting changes. There has been at Harvard within the last five years a definite swing toward a greater scholastic seriousness. Proofs, other than mere observations, are furnished by the Dean's Office. The number of men on the dean's list is steadily increasing. More men are at the present trying for honors in their fields than at any other time before. Last year the greatest number of degrees summa cum laude...
...Rotarian. A friend of North Carolina's hard-bitten little Methodist ex-Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, he was like him a leading Hoovercrat. Many North Carolinians believe Dr. Few to be a shrewd, astute politician backed by the Duke Endowment, heading a powerful lobby which could swing the election, for example, of a Methodist bishop, or aid in such an appointment as that of Hoovercrat Frank R. McNinch to the Federal Power Commission...
...position of Secretary for House Athletics according to an announcement made yesterday by William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. Samborski is at present in charge of all intramural sports and will merely switch his duties to take care of House athletics when the House Plan is in full swing next year...
...imparted to beginners by sending them up in a dual-control plane with an instructor. Last week at Glenn Curtiss airport, N. Y. a new method was introduced, to give students the ''feel" by letting them "fly solo" before leaving the ground. Equipment used: i) a glider mounted to swing in the blast of a fan; 2) an almost wingless "kiwi" or taxiplane which scoots around the field but cannot rise and which has strong hoops in front to protect the tyro if he noses over; 3) an ordinary glider; 4) a low-powered training plane...
With Lowell House opposing the Gold Coast and the Freshmen meeting the Yard, the Rugby intramural season will be in full swing when the first game begins this afternoon at 3.15 o'clock on Soldiers Field. Announcement was made yesterday that the games scheduled for Monday with the Philadelphia Marines and the Boston Rugby Club would be held on Saturday instead...