Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desired to set a new lower par for the sharpshooters, well and good, but do not take all the joy away from the Average Golfer...
...suggesting that it go home soon. His listeners wondered if Senator Bankhead was putting out a feeler for the President, who enjoys life much more when Congress is not around. If that was the case, here was another occasion on which Mr. Roosevelt had not seen fit to take his Majority Leader into his confidence. For among the first to rise in surprised opposition to Mr. Bankhead's idea was plodding Leader Barkley...
...cross-section and merit principles upon which this system is based are not incompatible. For, contrary to Freshman claims, the latter in theory will never be sacrificed to the former. For under the strictest application of the system, a good scholastic or activities record will always take precedence over such considerations as from what schools or from what part of the country the applicant may come. However, in the actual practice of this policy, the Freshmen have a legitimate complaint...
...placing undue emphasis upon the cross-section principle, occasionally for the purposes of discrimination. When several Freshmen conditionally gain admittance to Houses, while two of the most prominent men in the class and a large number of Dean's List students are refused entrance, it is time to take steps to prevent the present perversion of the system. One way of doing this is to institute a group of set criteria which would circumscribe the freedom of action of the Masters. The difficulties inherent in such a plan are evident. For it is next to impossible to make arbitrary standards...
While they lost last year by a slight margin to the Eli boat, this year the Crimson lightweights take their place at its stakeboat as favorites. The Harvard crew will be boating four veterans behind last year's stroke, and should make an excellent showing against Yale...