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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tenths of one percent higher than the grades of sons of non-Yale men-Dartmouth, Princeton, or even Harvard, perhaps? It looks very much as if Yale were not confident of this margin of superiority. If the sons of Yale men are indeed better scholastically, why apply any other test or qualification than that of scholarship? If they are not, what is their particular merit, or what their usefulness to a center of scholarship? The issue was discussed here last year; and the deservedly firm opposition to any such proposal is one very satisfactory proof that the spirit of liberalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PEDIGREED BUNK" | 2/26/1925 | See Source »

...Living Room of the Union has been obtained for the occasion and Moynanan's orchestra will furnish the music. The mass meeting will follow the smoker and is planned as a rally for the undefeated hockey team before its crucial test with the Eli Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO HOLD 1928 SMOKER ON EVE OF YALE GAME | 2/24/1925 | See Source »

...held for officeworkers. Speakers addressed all the clubs in Des Moines, including the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Cosmopolitan, Canopus, Gyro, Caravan, Women's Civic. Said Mr. Proper: "This movement is the beginning of a great crusade. . . . Science has shown us that what is true in the laboratory test tube is true in the outside world. Both the church and the layman will gain immeasurably by this experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Experiment | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...other men to compete in the dashes, hurdles and the N. E. A. A. U. 1000-yard run. In order to gain further experience a majority of the team is being held back for next Saturday's Triangular Meet with Cornell and Dartmouth which will provide the first conclusive test of the season for the team as a whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIBBETTS AND HAGGERTY TO COMPETE ON MONDAY | 2/21/1925 | See Source »

...were educated was one which involved learning, by self-wiled energy. The tutorial system at Harvard today has as its object a species of synthetic feeling, whereby the tutor puts an intellectual yeast-cake into the brew of the student's thoughts as an aid to mental fermentation. The test of potency is applied in the divisional examinations, when the display of knowledge shows itself truly effervescent, in some cases even explosive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophistries? | 2/20/1925 | See Source »

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