Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interdormitory Wrestling Meet which has been in progress for the past week, was completed yesterday in a tie between Gore and Smith, each with three points, followed by Standish with two and McKinlock with none. Several promising men are among the winners who will be counted on heavily to make up the personnel of the Freshman team...
...discount could perhaps be given for buying such coupons issued in booklet form, and the plan would also be advantageous to the H. A. A. in handling funds. To the conscientious student who, at the beginning of the season promises himself to play squash at least three times a week, such a system would be of great convenience, as well as an added bulwark against the temptation to break the pledge, that comes with December hours, theses, and too much Vagabonding...
...Harvard CRIMSON views the change which the University will make for meals as "contrary to an ancient Harvard policy and bound to arouse opposition from all those who prize this tradition of individualism and non-interference." And elsewhere a former Harvard man expresses the opinion that the charge per week virtually says: "Unless you are rich and can waste money, you must eat all your luncheons and dinners here...
Glider Prize. The first U. S. person to glide ten hours in a motorless plane will get a $2,000 prize. Detroit's Edward Steptoe Evans, founder-president of the National Glider Association,* made the offer at the association's dinner in Manhattan last week. The association has a score of affiliated clubs with about 600 members. William Patterson MacCracken, resigned assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, spoke of gliding as a cheapening, accelerating factor in the training of commercial pilots...
Hoppers. Unquenched by high percentage of failures, two flyers last week winner in the Oakland-Honolulu flight of 1927 (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927), in a specially built plane will attempt to fly from Paris to New York solo. Capt. Lewis A. Yancey, Maine-to-Spain non-stopper (TIME, July 22), has in mind a west-east crossing with Emile H. Burgin...