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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, already has gone into effect, and will be required of each final candidate for admission to the Freshman class...
...handicap which has faced the universities in their effort to institute honors courses and tutorial systems, to leave more to the individual effort and research of the undergraduate and less to the traditional lecture and test system has been the lack of proper training on the part of the preparatory school. The incoming Freshman arrives armed with the requisite number of facts but with a mind whose development has been retarded by the herding which it has undergone continuously from childhood. The mental processes work only in a crowd or with the crowd. Knowledge means nothing unless it is translated...
Coach E. L. Farrell expects to send a large squad to New York for the second test of the season. His charges have been entered in the one mile relay, in the dashes, the pole vault, and the 1000-yard run. The Columbia racers, slated to clash with the Crimson in the feature one-mile relay, were withdrawn, and the University of Maryland has elected to clash with the University of Virginia and Harvard in this event. The Virginia quartet is exceptionally fast. Plans are still in the air as to who will leave the marks for the University...
Captain H. N. Rawlins '27, P. M. Lenhart '27, H. B. Jackson '27, J. L. Pool '28, E. D. Pratt '27 and W. O. Iselin '29 will represent the University at Detroit. A series of test matches, which will be played between now and the time of departure, may change this ranking. A substitute player will be taken. Coach W. L. Cowles and L. H. Gordon '27, manager, will accompany the players...
...ballet La Legende de Joseph, then served upon each guest a bill for his share of the food. There is his snobbish insincerity: "I have always said my work was superficial." Many people will never forgive him for the satirical hoaxes of program music composed specially to test how much cacophony, dissonance, exaggeration, clowning the dilettante audiences would applaud, the grave critics would ponder. They are puzzled by his laughing acceptance of derogatory criticism, recall his wife's remark: "You may say what you like about his music, but if you don't praise his handwriting he will...