Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...with the tutorial system. This stand, however, was later temporarily modified, and prospective engineers were admitted into both Dunster and Lowell House. But the University has not as yet made any definite reversal of its original decision, and the present acceptance of applications from Engineering students only continues a hand to mouth policy...
...went up. Paulino Uzcudun, Basque woodchopper who for several years has been an exacting and dangerous trial horse for U. S. heavyweights, rushed out of his corner in Montjuich Stadium, Barcelona, and tried to hit Primo Camera, Italian Brobdingnag. His swing was short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle that Camera, punching almost vertically, was trying to crush. He sidestepped many of Camera's left leads...
Dartmouth scared Stanford once or twice when Quarterback Morton broke loose, but most of the time Coach Warner's men had the ball and the situation well in hand. Caglieri's touchdown in the last period made it Stanford 14, Dartmouth...
Most men who hold doctor's degrees from British universities (excepting doctors of medicine) receive them not for toil and research but as a mark of honor. Discriminatingly do British universities hand out kudos. Of three reasons most cogent to U. S. universities (to encourage or pay for endowment donations; to publicize themselves; to render genuine homage to great men), most often are the British guided by the third, marking with distinction the authentic great. None so marked can consider himself more highly honored than he who receives from Oxford University a degree of Doctor of Civil Law. Last...
When a person of advanced years makes the sacrifice of his time, and what is still more important, of his own money, he is motivated by a strong desire for further knowledge. It is not a question of satisfying the ambitions of a parent or guardian. On the other hand, an alarming percentage of undergraduates clutter halls of learning for no other reason than to preserve a family tradition, or to stave off contact with an office desk for a few more years. Again, the difference between a mature person taking an elementary language course in preparation for next summer...