Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's guidance "with increasing reluctance", were (1) the separation of the Covenant from the Treaty, (2) the doctrine of self-determination, (3) the proposed treaty with France, (4) the lack of an American programme, (5) secret diplomacy, (6) the system of mandates and (7) the Shantung settlement. The nearest approach to agreement came on the Flume question and was there confined to the principles involved...
...period after the usual season closes. Such an arrangement would be both troublesome and difficult. Yet not very long ago the Harvard eleven went into post-season training in order to play the University of Oregon. The football men had been trained so as to reach the nearest possible perfection for the Yale game. Nevertheless they willingly undertook a resumption of their work, gave up their Christmas vacation--went West and won. It would seem possible, in face of this example, for members of the track team to stay on the few extra weeks necessary in order to meet...
...honor of the meeting the best three Freshman boats this afternoon. Showing exceptionally good form for work so early in the season, the winning boat rowed well over the whole course and crossed the finish line one and a quarter lengths in the lead of its nearest competitor, covering the distance in 5 minutes and 46 seconds. Next in line were the third autumn crew, the fourth autumn crew, and the second inexperienced football men crew; the third autumn crew trailed the seconds by a length and a half and the football men were a length further in the rear...
Whitney romped away with his heat in the hurdles, leading the nearest man by more than two yards. Earl Thompson of Dartmouth, Olympic champion, made the best time in the trial heats of 6 3-5 seconds, and duplicated this in the final heat, which he won easily, leading Frank Loomis of the Chicago Athletic Association, and Whitney, who were running neck and neck for second place, by about three yards. Whitney was a few inches behind Loomis at the finish, and got third place...
...From the college founded by John Harvard has grown the University with its many graduate schools. The same expansion is true of Yale, Columbia and Cornell, to mention only a few instances. Education has become so widely available and so standardized that it can be picked up at the nearest supply station. The choice of college no longer depends so largely on what a boy can learn in any particular place; as far as that is concerned, he can learn much the same thing in many different places. "We see no reason why a boy should not go to Harvard...