Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University squad, who has been allotted 10 inches. In the high jump Brown of Dartmouth and Murphy of Newark will be the scratch competitors, with the three lowest handicapped Crimson entrants being Morse, Greeley, an Gerould, cach of whom has an advantage of 5 inches. Harwood and West of the B. A. A., in the absence of Davis, will be the only scratch men in the pole vault, D. D. Reidy coming after then with a four-inch handicap...
...year the School has been petitioning for a charter. It is the third chapter to be founded in Massachusetts, the Alpha chapter being at the Worcester Polytechnical School and the Beta chapter at Technology. The Fraternity which has headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., is especially strong in the Middle West...
Besides Professor Hart's book, the following histories were condemned: "An American History" by David Saville Muzzey of Columbia University: "History of the American People" by Willis Mason West, former head of the department of history of the University of Minnesota; "A History of the United States for Schools" by Andrew C. McLaughlin, of the University of Chicago and Claude H. Van Tyne, of the University of Michigan: "Our United States" by William B. Guitteau, director of schools at Toledo; "Burke's Speech on Conciliation", edited by O. H. Ward, of the Taft School: "Short American History by Grades...
...Frank Vanderlip, banker and economist, has recently indicated his preference for the western as compared with the eastern student. The college man from the West, says Mr. Vanderlip, is far more eager to learn, but is handicapped by an inferiority complex. Mr. Don Seitz, Managing Editor of the New York World, in his article published in the CRIMSON this morning, while hesitating to draw any invidious distinctions, attacks the same problem--lack of eagerness for intellectual knowledge, lack of interest in the questions...
...East--is under fire. As if the opinion of men like Mr. Vanderlip were not enough, we have been told even by alumni, inspired by "youth movements" and educational nostalgia, that Harvard has become a third-rate institution when compared with the live, enthusiastic young colleges of the West...