Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very start, all the men who have played in the two tournaments which just ended, will be formed into two rank lists, one for squash, and one for squash racquets. A ladder tournament will be instituted among the members of each list in such a form that the leader in each list will hold his position only against continual competition. All men on the list, except the first ranking ten, can challenge at any time the man three places above him on the list. In the first ten any man can challenge the player next above him. Thus a continual...
...long time since Greek was dropped as an entrance requirement, and since Latin was compulsory for Freshmen here. Harvard was the first college to adopt, the "Comprehensive Plan" for entrance, and has been a leader in the system of concentration, distribution and general examinations. The recent progressive steps taken by other universities have only in rare instances gone beyond what Harvard has already done. Perhaps the reason that Harvard has remained comparatively unchanged this year is that she was prepared to meet modern conditions before they...
...Moreover we look to America to be the leader in the formation of an International Consortium which shall finance China. For three reasons the formation of such a partnership is essential to our welfare. First, in order to secure the large sums of money which are necessary to finance new railroads, and other forms of communication, to reform the monetary system of China, and to develop industrial and commercial enterprises. Secondly, to insure the expenditures of money so loaned to us upon the objects for which it is borrowed by the Chinese government...
...music to be sung at these coming concerts will be of an altogether higher order musically than that which has characterized the Glee Club concerts in the past, and from what I know of the work of the Club's leader--Prof. Archibald T. Davison,--I am sure all who are interested in good choral singing will find the concerts of unusual interest and value...
Herr Shuecking, German pacifist leader, characterizes the rejection of the Treaty of Versailles as a "tremendous moral victory for the cause of universal peace." Of course what the Herr Professor means is that it is a tremendous moral victory for Germany, in which he is entirely correct. He then goes on to point out that in the League America has only one vote to England's six, and deplores such a terrible state of affairs, where darling America, whom Germany loves so much, would be England's "hand-maiden." With a little dig at the wickedness of "imperialistic Japan...