Word: entrant
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Berkeley Bell, 22-year-old Texas tennis star, by defeating debonair, beret-wearing Jean Borotra, only French entrant: in the first round of the national singles championship at Forest Hills...
...Marvin Nelson, husky Iowa swimmer: $10,000 and the 15-mi. Canadian National Exhibition Marathon in the warm waters of Lake Ontario from a field of 173 contestants. Time: 7 hr. 43 min. 36 sec. Anne Benoit, only woman entrant, winner of last month's unhealthy Around-Manhattan swim (TIME, Aug. 4), fell far behind, was finally fished...
...chief difficulty in the whole question is the College Entrance Board Examination system. In the first place, the Old Plan demanding tests for each subject presented for admission has been proven to be highly unsatisfactory. Statistics show that it is by far the least efficient means of judging an entrant's ability. But as Dr. Kerns has pointed out previously, in spite of this there has been no increase in the use of the better New plan since its inception several years ago. And the New Plan itself, with all of the freedom it brings, does not allow sufficient latitude...
...Plan examination could be revised to allow more latitude in the entrant's background and the record of his other studies as shown by the preparatory school along with aptitude tests are sufficient means of judging his other abilities. Then secondary education could be an end rather than a highly inefficient means. To the college there remains the problem of increasing the standard of the instruction in Freshmen courses and adapting its requirements to encourage applicants who have been educated rather than crammed. The crux of the matter is the entrance examination, and their existence is entirely dependent upon...
...events in the annual Harvard Invitation Regatta on the Charles were run off yesterday afternoon, the Senior singles race and the double sculls. As is the case in every event of the regatta, all events are open to outsiders, the only restriction in the novice events being that the entrant shall not have won before in his race...