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...representatives in 1920 being accorded the honor of representing the United States as the Olympic eight. In the two races this year against M. I. T., and Princeton, the Navy had little difficulty in winning by four and six lengths respectively. Due to the varying weather conditions, a comparison of rowing times is seldom of value, but is a fair indication of strength if a similarity in conditions does prevail. In the first time trial of the year on Lake Carnegie, the University eight covered the mile and three-quarter course in nine minutes and 25 seconds. In the Quadrangular...
...puts them some eighteen months ahead of ours. No one works his way through Oxford or Cambridge. Almost everyone can look forward to a safe future. Leisure is thus essential in preparation for a life in which struggle is tempered by privilege. All this is perhaps changing; but in comparison with Harvard it will long the true...
...will be done for them. Too often this hope is disappointed, due rather to lack of time on the student's part than to disinclination. This is to be deplored, for with more time at his disposal the student could submit reports and small theses on various subjects, and comparison of these with ordinary examinations reveals in a minute their superiority of training. Put a student in the library with a keen interest in some subject on which he expects to prepare a little masterpiece; give him references on which to work, and encourage his eclectic faculty; expect...
...dialogue and a comical drunken scene. At the end, the caste of five receives much applause from a well satisfied audience. The problem we expect to be worked out for us is left unsolved, yet we are not disappointed for the plot of the whole play is insignificant in comparison to the cleverness of the dialogue throughout...
...under 16 to jail or to charge him with crime; a law of "contributory delinquency" penalizing parents. Playgrounds, public baths, night-schools, summer camps, day- nurseries?these, too, bear the Lindsey seal. "He is the Pinchot-Burbank of human resources." But the revived enthusiasm is a mere whisper in comparison with the plaudits of 10 and 15 years ago. Reform is apparently obsolete. Before the War, Ben Lindsey's story was shouted from front page to front page. This last year, Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture featured him. For this health and sex publication, the Judge wrote a series...