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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shows up in the case of the student who gets three B-plusses and a C-plus for his term's work. When a percentage scale is set up parallel to the letter grade scale and letters are translated into their numerical equivalents (a process which many section men use in arriving at their letter grades) these grades average out to be about an 85. Yet, this man is placed in Rank Group IV. Another student gets four B-minuses, which is about an 81, and he ends up in Group III, which gives him Dean's List privileges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Rank System | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

...hostile use of the stick is concerned, lacrosse players seldom brain a man while the reforce is looking...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Lacrosse Is No Longer an Indian Tribal Contest | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

...fact a Harvard student publication and therefore entitled to recognition as such. If the issue had been the opinions of the group whose name was attached to the New Student, the Committee would have refused recognition to the HYD in the first place and would have denied it the use of Harvard buildings for communist speakers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Bender Replies | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

...with the team. Golf is famous for its remote-control system of coaching, since the only way to improve is to practice by yourself. By the time a man is good enough to make the team, he presumably knows enough to keep his eye on the ball and not use a driver in a sandtrap...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Golf Team, Minus a Team, Opens Its Schedule in Dixie | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

Golf would be an easy game to follow this spring, if there weren't any scoring. The team will use three different methods of tallying a meet, depending on whom it plays. Sometimes the final score will add up to seven, sometimes nine, and sometimes 27. Unlike single rounds, the winner is the team that scores the most points. Don't let it throw...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Golf Team, Minus a Team, Opens Its Schedule in Dixie | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

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