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...year or two after my graduation, I applied to President Eliot for a tutorship in Greek. Tutors in those days were appointed for terms of three years. I was young, inexperienced, and afraid, and undoubtedly made a bad, impression on him. He gave me no encouragement at all. Yet Greek was prescribed to Freshmen and tutors had to be found. The academic year for the upper classes began on Thursday; for Freshmen, some of whom were examined for admission in the last three days of the week, it began on the following Monday. On Saturday half of the Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briggs, Disciple of Eliot, Writes on "Greatest Man He Ever Knew" in Article Rich With Anecdotes | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

Hanover, N. H., Oct. 24--The Dartmouth eleven went through its final practice session this afternoon in preparation for the game at Cambridge on Saturday. Throughout the afternoon's drill, the first three teams took turns on the defensive against a team which put on Harvard plays as interpreted by the Dartmouth scouts. Coach Cannell has emphasized defensive play throughout the week's practice, with the result that little stress has been placed upon offensive drills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIG GREEN LEAVES HANOVER AFTER MORNING WORKOUT | 10/25/1929 | See Source »

...Carnegie report was of intercollegiate and, to a certain extent, of public importance. Two other items played up during the past week were not. The three-column "Stunt Riot at Harvard" headline of a Boston paper last Thursday led a story that deliberately over-emphasized one incident of the initiations until there appeared to be a race-riot seething under the surface at Harvard Square. The bold-face story on "Kindergarten Treatment" in another paper yesterday related a mild disciplinary action such as has often occurred in English 2, and is utterly without importance outside of the classroom. Thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT THE WHOLE TRUTH | 10/25/1929 | See Source »

...figures on the fall registration were also given out. The registration in the School this year reached its highest mark in the last three years, having a total of 62 men entered. In 1927-1928, there were 57, while last year there were but 41 men registered. There were 37 new men in this year's incoming class, of whom over half had had previous undergraduate training in their college courses. This is an unusual increase over the average entering group of from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/24/1929 | See Source »

Smith Halls swamped the other Freshman dormitories in the 1933 inter-dormitory track meet yesterday, when, in four events, Smith runners captured three first and two second places. H. F. Kollmyer '33 placed first in the 100 yard dash and the 220 yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMITH HALL CAPTURES INTERDORM TRACK MEET | 10/24/1929 | See Source »

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