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...wish to audit. But since students are allowed to enroll in only two courses, they should be allowed, as usual, to broaden their education beyond the sixteen courses required for a degree. The system used under the old plan for former Summer School groups needs an overhaul and tune-up to keep pace with the new accelerated program...
...Tune-up games, though never used at Harvard in recent years, are not uncommon in the Ivy League. Columbia staged an informal affair with a neighboring school the week before running into Brown, and Pennsylvania gave its Sophomores valuable game experience in two pre-season workouts with Bucknell and Muhlenburg...
...crowd this was just grace before meat. Their dish was excitement. Would there be any smashups? Two of the cars that had qualified in test runs had already been wrecked: one the day before, in a last-minute tune-up; another only a few hours earlier, when a fire burned down a row of garages on the edge of the speedway. Would anyone break the record of 117.2 m.p.h.? Could Wilbur Shaw win the 500 for the third year in a row? It had never been done...
...Davis Cup, no Wightman Cup, no Wimbledon matches this summer. It is the war. But what shocked U. S. tennis fans last week was the announcement that Boston's Longwood Cricket Club had been forced to cancel its tournament, for nearly half a century a major tune-up for the national championships. Reason: aristocratic Longwood can no longer afford to pay America's top-ranking amateurs (most of whom come from California) the "expenses" they demand for appearing in tournaments...
...attracted a record crowd to Santa Anita's magnificent track. Could Seabiscuit win the Hundred Grand in his third try? Could he, after a year on the farm,* beat twelve of the country's fastest thoroughbreds? He had outrun a classy field the previous week in a tune-up race. But this time the Biscuit was assigned top weight of 130 lbs., six lbs. more than he carried the week before and 16 to 20 lbs. more than most of his fleet footed rivals...