Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan eleven four years, from 1918 to 1921, inclusive, as an end, at tackle, and finishing his grid career as a guard, was considered one of the best players in the West. Schooled in football by the veteran coach, F. H. Yest, he will bring to Harvard a thorough knowledge of a system that has won great success in the Western Conference. Dunne has kept in close touch with football since his graduation, and is fully abreast of developments of the past few years...
...obvious that opinion on international affairs and economic theory is worthless unless it is based on a thorough grasp of the facts gleaned from exhaustive research, and it is particularly the curse of undergraduate thought that its conclusions are usually emotional reactions arising from hasty and superficial reading or discussion. It is nonsense to raise the bugaboo of radicalism in relation to such resolutions as those passed at the Milwaukee conference. They are half-baked, and they could be nothing else. Undergraduates, with very few exceptions, have not studied long enough to subscribe with intellectual honesty to any such statements...
Coach Brown, who took over the crew helm this fall, believes that if men are able to grasp fundamentals in thorough fashion, it is an easy matter then to shake them together into definite lineups. In other words he intends to develop his material first and name his line-ups when he knows what that material amounts to. This is not a radical departure in coaching, but a twist new enough to cause the focussing of a certain amount of attention on his efforts next spring...
...children, sold them houses and land. He has sat beside them in classrooms and later had them sit as pupils in his own classes. Trained at the University of Chicago, he is now a Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. For 25 years he has made a thorough study of the Negro problem. No "nigger-lover," no "nigger-hater," Professor Dowd understands darkest America...
...moment, to suspect that this course deals with aspects of the modern musical show, a little reflection will make it evident that this is not the case. Yet Professor Burkhard's lecture presents rare attraction to a student vagabond. Not only is it given by a deep and thorough student of romanticism, but in addition it deals with one of the most interesting phases of the movement which exercises most of its influence in Germany through the un versifies...