Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playing a type of hockey that predicts a successful season, the Freshman hockey team Saturday at the Charlesbank Rinks swamped the M. I. T. Freshmen 13 to 0 in the first scheduled game of the season. Although the opposition was weak, the Crimson players showed a good offense, peppering the Engineers goal. Their teamwork was excellent throughout the game, the passing being accurate at all times. C. L. Harding played a very brilliant game at center. He is exceptionally fast, a good stick handler, and "checks-back" well...
...series of meetings throughout the winter, this committee will review the rules for ticket distribution in force at present, noting the weak points and making recommendations for the changes that seem necessary...
...right to fly? As you sit down to supper tonight in Memorial Hall, or around the cheerful table in the club or fraternity house, will no thoughts arise of your fellow-students, many of them struggling along on a few crusts of bread and a cup of weak tea all the supper they will get tonight...
Twenty members of the University squad took part in the game, Coach Claflin's first-string men being on the ice only a part of each period. It is probably for this reason that the Crimson skaters were unable to run up a larger score against the supposedly weak B. U. team. The defence of the Crimson was excellent, Owen and Crosby breaking up the B. U. attacks time after time. Captain Owen played his usual excellent game at right defence, also taking an important part in the offence...
...John Dewey, in one of his periodic attacks on the present system of education, remarks that it is strong on its receptive side and weak on the creative; and that the consequence is a comparative scarcity of creative artists and thinkers among us. The American university is in need of constructive criticism; and it must be admitted that it has been receiving a great deal--from the outside. Suggestions have been made by many writers and educators, men who have studied and compared the methods used in different colleges, and commented on them. All that is needed now is that...