Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . The crux of West Point's stand lies in ... that with its smaller enrolment it cannot cope with Annapolis unless it can disregard the three-year rule...
...this position is to be accepted, what of the colleges whose enrolment is only equal to or less than that of West Point, but who take on larger colleges without demanding any such concession? The figures given below are taken from the Chicago Daily News Year Book of 1926, but are approximate of this year's strength. With due allowance that certain of these colleges include in their totals the noneligible co-eds and graduate students, the revised figures do not materially affect the situation...
Tiny Swarthmore musters 552 to do battle against Pennsylvania's 12,285. Amherst with 615 tilts her Purple lance against Princeton's 2,412. Williams with 740 tackles Columbia's 32,769. Washington and Jefferson's 776 challenge West Virginia's 2,729, Carnegie Tech's 6,031 and Pitt's 9,304. Plucky little Colgate hurls her 825 against Michigan State's 1,878, Brown's 2,035, Indiana's 5.106, Syracuse's 7,546, Wisconsin's 11,893 and the mighty hordes oj Columbia. There...
Last fortnight Attorney General Mitchell detailed over the radio the Administration's plan for permanent prison betterment. It called for $6.500,000 to build five new Federal prisons: a 1,200-inmate penitentiary in the northeastern states, an industrial reformatory in the West for 1.200, three Federal jails to hold 500 short-term convicts each. The plan also projects reorganization of the parole system, development of prison industries, provision for education of prisoners...
...winter schedule includes the regular games in the Boston Indoor League for the University, Junior University, and Freshman teams, 'which will take place on alternate Saturdays in December. After the midyear period the team will play several games outside of Cambridge. On February 8 they will play West Point there, followed by a return game here on February 15. A western trip will see the team meet the 107th Cavalry in Cleveland February 21, and Cincinnati Riding Club in Cincinnati on February 22. On March 1 the team will meet Yale here, with a return game in New Haven...